ANST - Fw: [tudortalk] Limericks

[Caley Woulfe]

Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [tudortalk] Limericks


>>From my Tudor list.  couldn't bear not to share!
>Heleen / Phillipa
>>
>>   Gwaawnn!  Let's hear the rest!!
>>
>>   Best Wishes,
>>   Judy
>>
>>
>>  Oh, all right then - said he, sideling up to the microphone, centre
stage.
>>  I've written the first stress of each line in capitals,
>>  as in ...de DUM de dum de dum...!
>>
>>  (...clears throat...)
>>
>>  1.
>>  Henry's FIRST wife was Catherine of Aragon,
>>  For a TIME thought that she was his paragon,
>>  But to GET a divorce,
>>  Broke with ROME, but of course,
>>  And then FEASTed on quail's eggs and tarragon.
>>
>>  2.
>>  Young HENry the Eighth, known as Tudor,
>>  His MANner it could not be ruder,
>>  For his WIFE Anne Boleyn,
>>  Lost her HEAD. What a sin!
>>  I bet SHE wished that he'd never wooed her.
>>
>>  3.
>>  To Jane SEYmour was Henry next wed,
>>  And at HAMPton Court took to her bed,
>>  For a SON she produced,
>>  But her HEALTH it reduced,
>>  And she DIED, but she did keep her head.
>>
>>  4.
>>  From FAR travelled young Anne of Cleves,
>>  But her FACE Henry badly receives,
>>  Holbein MAKES her look fair,
>>  Henry THINKS "Flanders Mare!"
>>  I'm the LUCKiest Queen she perceives.
>>
>>  5.
>>  Kathryn HOWard was known to be flirty,
>>  With LOVers, there must have been thirty.
>>  CulPEPer and she,
>>  Found IN flagranti.
>>  Whilst HENry played his hurdy gurdy.
>>
>>
>>  6.
>>  The LAST queen he wed, Catherine Parr,
>>  Was the ONE who outlived him. Hoorah!
>>  When HAL was quite dead,
>>  Her WINGS she did spread,
>>  And OPENed a posh singles bar!
>>
>>  Marc.
>>  ...de DUM de dum de dum...
>>
>
>
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