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

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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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