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1779–1852

A JOKE VERSIFIED.

Thomas Moore

“Come, come,” said Tom's father, “at your time of life, “There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake — “It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife” — “Why, so it is, father — whose wife shall I take?”

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