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Poem by Edmund Clerihew Bentley


Bacon


When their lordships asked Bacon
How many bribes he had taken
He had at least the grace
To get very red in the face.



Edmund Clerihew Bentley


Edmund Clerihew Bentley's other poems:
  1. Chaucer
  2. Lewis Carroll
  3. Clive of India
  4. Alexander
  5. Dorothy L. Sayers


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