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12 of the Best and Funniest Limericks Ever Written
2025-03-16 15:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Our pick of the greatest limericks selected by Dr Oliver TearleThe limerick is a poetic form shrouded in mystery: nobody knows why theyre named after Limerick, who invented the form, or when they were first composed.What we do know is that theyve been with us for a long time the earliest limericks date back to the Middle Ages and that, at their best, limericks can be very, very funny. They can also demonstrate a masterly control of verse form and admirable economy of language.Theres even a limerick in ShakespearesOthello. InShakespeares great tragedy, written in around 1604, Iago sings a drinking song which he claims he heard in England: And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink: A soldiers a man; A lifes but a span; Why then let a soldier drink. And from theRoxburgh Ballads, published in 1640, we have this poem, Mondayes Worke:Good morow, neighbour Gamble,Come let you and I goe ramble;Last night I was shotThrough the braines with a pot,And now...
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