<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, prithee friend, if thou has ought<br>Of love and kind regard for me<br>Tell not you bore the stories droll<br>That yesternight I told to thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor tell him stories of thine own,<br>Nor chestnut of antiquitee;<br>Nor quip, nor crank, nor anything<br>If thou has ought of love for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For sense of humour hath he none,<br>No gift for telling tales hath he:<br>Yet thinks himself within his heart<br>A wit of wondrous drolleree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the golden summer-time<br>With ear a-cock he roameth free,<br>Collecting quibble, quip, and crank;<br>And anecdotes collecteth he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then in the dreary winter nights<br>He sits him down 'neath my roof tree,<br>And in a coarse, ungently voice<br>He tells those stories back to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He hath no wit for telling tales,<br>He laughs where ne'er a point there be;<br>But sits and murders honest yarns,<br>And claims them as his propertee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he laughs I rock and roar;<br>Ay, laugh both loud and merrilee;<br>And, mark thou, friend, my martyrdom<br>He is a creditor to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is a man of mighty power;<br>In very fact, a great J.P.;<br>And I, his debtor, rock and roar,<br>And vow he'll be the death o' me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ay, prithee, friend, if thou hast love<br>For goodly jests or care for me,<br>Then tell him not the merry tale<br>That yesternight I told to thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357815" data-title="The Bore de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Ah, prithee friend, if thou has ought Of love and kind regard for me Tell not you bore the stories droll That yesternight I told to thee. Nor tell him stories of thine own, Nor chestnut of antiquitee; Nor quip, nor crank, nor anything If thou has..."></div> </div> </div>

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