William Cosmo Monkhouse - There Once Was an Old Man of Lyme

There once was an old man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time,
When asked, "Why a third?"
He replied, "One's absurd!
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.

William Cosmo Monkhouse

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