Poem by William Cosmo Monkhouse

Limerick: There Once Was an Old Man of Lyme

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.

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