There was a Speccie for limericks boiling down Jane Austen (if you see what I mean). I did three and won with one. Guess which?
Pride and Prejudice
Poor Elizabeth Bennett, a honey
Who is pretty and witty and sunny,
Really fancies rich Darcy
Who acts rather arsy.
She wins him and marries the money
Persuasion
Her father’s a terrible prick,
And her sisters both make you quite sick.
How we suffer for Anne
Who rejected her man
When she ought to have snapped him up quick.
Sense and Sensibility
Marianne, a Romantic confessed,
With a sister who knows she knows best,
Has to practically croak
And then marry a bloke
In an anaphrodisiac vest.
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