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Prince, Bayard would have smashed his sword
To see the sort of knights you dub--
Is that the last of them — O Lord
Will someone take me to a pub?
--
"A Ballade Of An Anti-puritan" in The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) edited Carolyn Wells, p. 338

 

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