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Thread #56572 Message #3796867
Posted By: MGM·Lion
21-Jun-16 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: Lay the bent to the bonnie broome? Meaning?
Subject: RE: Lay the bent to the bonnie broome? Meaning?
A-propos that last post of Jim's, I recently posted on the Mudcat Poetry Corner thread one of the limericks with which I won a Folk Review competition way back when, for limericks summarising ballads. My one for Child #1 'Riddles...', #4, 'Captain Wedderburn', &c &c, went:—
It's part of an ancient tradition That persons of noble condition Must faddle and fiddle To answer a riddle If they wish to indulge in coition