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A leafy cot where no dry rot	A
Had ever been by tenant seen	B
Where ivy clung and wopses stung	C
Where beeses hummed and drummed and strummed	A
Where treeses grew and breezes blew	D
A thatchy roof quite waterproof	E
Where countless herds of dicky birds	F
Built twiggy beds to lay their heads	G
My mother begs I'll make it eggs	H
But though it's true that dickies do	D
Construct a nest with chirpy noise	I
With view to rest their eggy joys	I
'Neath eavy sheds yet eggs and beds	G
As I explain to her in vain	J
Five hundred times are faulty rhymes	K
'Neath such a cot built on a plot	A
Of freehold land dwelt MARY and	A
Her worthy father named by me	L
GREGORY PARABLE LL D	L
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He knew no guile this simple man	M
No worldly wile or plot or plan	M
Except that plot of freehold land	A
That held the cot and MARY and	A
Her worthy father named by me	L
GREGORY PARABLE LL D	L
	-
A grave and learned scholar he	L
Yet simple as a child could be	L
He'd shirk his meal to sit and cram	N
A goodish deal of Eton Gram	N
No man alive could him nonplus	K
With vocative of FILIUS	K
No man alive more fully knew	D
The passive of a verb or two	D
None better knew the worth than he	L
Of words that end in B D T	L
Upon his green in early spring	O
He might be seen endeavouring	O
To understand the hooks and crooks	K
Of HENRY and his Latin books	K
Or calling for his Caesar on	P
The Gallic War like any don	P
Or p'raps expounding unto all	Q
How mythic BALBUS built a wall	Q
So lived the sage who's named by me	L
GREGORY PARABLE LL D	L
	-
To him one autumn day there came	R
A lovely youth of mystic name	R
He took a lodging in the house	K
And fell a dodging snipe and grouse	K
For oh that mild scholastic one	S
Let shooting for a single gun	S
	-
By three or four when sport was o'er	T
The Mystic One laid by his gun	S
And made sheep's eyes of giant size	K
Till after tea at MARY P	L
And MARY P so kind was she	L
She too made eyes of giant size	K
Whose every dart right through the heart	A
Appeared to run that Mystic One	S
The Doctor's whim engrossing him	U
He did not know they flirted so	K
For save at tea MUSA MUSAE	K
As I'm advised monopolised	A
And rendered blind his giant mind	A
But looking up above his cup	V
One afternoon he saw them spoon	W
Aha quoth he you naughty lass	K
As quaint old OVID says 'Amas '	-
	-
The Mystic Youth avowed the truth	X
And claiming ruth he said In sooth	X
I love your daughter aged man	M
Refuse to join us if you can	M
Treat not my offer sir with scorn	Y
I'm wealthy though I'm lowly born	Y
Young sir the aged scholar said	A
I never thought you meant to wed	A
Engrossed completely with my books	K
I little noticed lovers' looks	K
I've lived so long away from man	M
I do not know of any plan	M
By which to test a lover's worth	X
Except perhaps the test of birth	X
I've half forgotten in this wild	A
A father's duty to his child	A
It is his place I think it's said	A
To see his daughters richly wed	A
To dignitaries of the earth	X
If possible of noble birth	X
If noble birth is not at hand	A
A father may I understand	A
And this affords a chance for you	D
Be satisfied to wed her to	D
A BOUCICAULT or BARING which	Z
Means any one who's very rich	Z
Now there's an Earl who lives hard by	A2
My child and I will go and try	A2
If he will make the maid his bride	A
If not to you she shall be tied	A
	-
They sought the Earl that very day	A
The Sage began to say his say	A
The Earl a very wicked man	M
Whose face bore Vice's blackest ban	M
Cut short the scholar's simple tale	B2
And said in voice to make them quail	B2
Pooh go along you're drunk no doubt	A
Here PETERS turn these people out	A
	-
The Sage rebuffed in mode uncouth	X
Returning met the Mystic Youth	X
My darling boy the Scholar said	A
Take MARY blessings on your head	A
	-
The Mystic Boy undid his vest	A
And took a parchment from his breast	A
And said Now by that noble brow	C2
I ne'er knew father such as thou	C2
The sterling rule of common sense	K
Now reaps its proper recompense	K
Rejoice my soul's unequalled Queen	B
For I am DUKE OF GRETNA GREEN	B

William Schwenck Gilbert

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