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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fair Rosamond</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You've heard of King Henry II<br>And the story of how he got fond <br>Of one of his customer's daughters,<br>A lass called the &quot; Fair Rosamond.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twere a lovely romance while it lasted, <br>The course of true love ran serene,<br>Till some nosey-parkering varlet <br>Started carrying tales to the Queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Queen were at first incred-u-lous. <br>She said &quot;What a tale to invent!&quot;<br>The King would not stoop to such baseness <br>At any rate, not during Lent.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But one morning she picked up a doublet <br>As he'd dropped on his bedroom settee;<br>It had three golden hairs on the shoulder <br>And a strong smell of 'Soir de Paree.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She went to the King in a passion <br>And showed him this evidence clear,<br>And swore by her distaff and wimple <br>That she weren't having none of that theer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said &quot; If I catch that young woman, <br>She'll leave no more hairs on your coat- <br>Her trying to pinch other folks' monarchs- <br>I'll give her a swim in the moat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he took Rosie off to the country, <br>To an old-fashioned manor of his,<br>With an &quot;'ampton Court Maze &quot;in the garden <br>As he kept for occasions like this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the Queen wasn't fooled for a moment, <br>She knew all about Henry's ways;<br>She slipped off herself the next morning <br>And secretly watched that there maze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She were hiding in t 'macaracapa <br>When Rosie came out for the milk,<br>And she fixed to her dress as she passed her <br>The end of a bobbin of silk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor Rosie went back not suspecting<br>The trail she were leaving behind,<br>And the Queen slowly followed her gloating<br>At what she expected to find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The King he were toasting a muffin,<br>And Rosie were wetting the tea, <br>When in walked the Queen her face shining<br>With a look of malevolent glee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She'd a basin of poison in one hand, <br>In the other, a glittering knife<br>The King kind of goggled a moment,<br>Then turned and said &quot; Rose... meet the wife!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Queen shoved the basin at Rosie, <br>And held the knife out by its point<br>It were plain she had no' but two choices,<br>The soup or a cut off the joint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Fair Rosamond begged for mercy.<br>She said, &quot;What you've heard is not true,<br>Our friendship were purely platonic.&quot;<br>A yarn which in them days was new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The King told the same tale as Rosie <br>And if that's not the truth, Queen,&quot; he cried,<br>May I die on this spot where I'm standing !<br>As he said it he skipped to one side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Queen at the finish believed them, <br>But to save further messing around,<br>She packed Rosie off to a Convent <br>And had the maze burnt to the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marriott+Edgar">Marriott Edgar</a><div class=q>
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And the story of how he got fond 
Of one of his customer's daughters,
A lass called the &quot; Fair Rosamond.&quot;

'Twere a lovely romance while it lasted, 
The course of true love ran serene,
Till some nosey-parker..."></div>
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