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Humorous Poetry
Issue # 54
September 13, 2003

Hi Friends,

To be the Wz-ard of Humorous Quotes does pay,
Makes you stumble across geniuses like John Gay.

At his "The Beggar's Opera" let's take a peek,
And then from his Fables some wisdom seek ...


I stumbled across John Gay and his
"The Beggar's Opera" while putting together 
http://workinghumor.com/quotes/lawyer.shtml
and naturally, I couldn't resist digging deeper ;)


Excerpts from The Beggar's Opera
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(The piece on lawyers is titled A Soldier and A Sailor)
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem867.html

{If you would like to go through the entire play online
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beggar.html }

The Rat-Catcher and Cats
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A Fable in rhyme
http://www.catquotes.com/therat-catcherandcats.htm

The Hare and Many Friends
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Another Fable in rhyme (John wrote 51 of them ;)
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem869.html


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As I sign off, all I say
is - "God be with ye"

;-)


Best Wishes,

Gunjan
Your Humorous Poetry WZ-ard

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