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Originally Posted by Jerome Betts
Thank you, Allen. Your episcopal completion shares one word with mine, 'writer', so that's a good start. Yes, 3d, the entrance fee in old money, was one quarter of 5p in the present currency, so indeed they had little to lend.
Incidentally, the editor's non-metreical cop-out was: "The Editor wishes readers to know that this is merely for personal amusement, and offers no prize - the blighter!"
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Since I qualify, and since 'writer'
was the rhyme word, I must rest my case. Thump. Pay up. I might be in London briefly in late June to collect and defend my fief.
('Blighter' being limited to humans, I didn't want to violate Natural Law and apply it to the snug hat.)
In case any doubt my license, there is a false rhyme in the matronical limerick (false
even in the US: 'm'
≠ 'n'), so pray don't lear at the two appearances of 'me'. (See below.)
I retain some curiosity about how to integrate 'enosis' with 'writer'. I know what it means well enough.
Allen
Allen