This is the third installment of the saga which began with the limerick, "Ottava Rima", and continued through the ottava rima, "Limerick".
Ottava Rima was made to recite all ten commandments at the next high mass. In her very private room she did write them again and again just like in class. By candlelight she stayed up every night reading aloud with not a hint of sass. She read them at mass; the tenth one by chance began, “There once was a lady from France...”
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