Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized.
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There was an old party of Lyme Who married three wives at one time. Go to Quote / Comment
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace. Go to Quote / Comment
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.' Go to Quote / Comment