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Thread #98913 Message #2233689
Posted By: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
11-Jan-08 - 03:55 AM
Thread Name: martin said to his man couplets:who's the fool now
Subject: RE: martin said to his man couplets
Saw a wren kill a man
With his dag in his hand.
Very early verse - probably late C18.
Wren was a 'camp-follower'
Dag was a knife or by extension a male organ.