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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538956" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John and Freddy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">JOHN courted lovely MARY ANN,<br>So likewise did his brother, FREDDY.<br>FRED was a very soft young man,<br>While JOHN, though quick, was most unsteady.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FRED was a graceful kind of youth,<br>But JOHN was very much the strongest.<br>"Oh, dance away," said she, "in truth,<br>I'll marry him who dances longest."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">JOHN tries the maiden's taste to strike<br>With gay, grotesque, outrageous dresses,<br>And dances comically, like<br>CLODOCHE AND Co., at the Princess's.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But FREDDY tries another style,<br>He knows some graceful steps and does 'em -<br>A breathing Poem - Woman's smile -<br>A man all poesy and buzzem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now FREDDY'S operatic PAS -<br>Now JOHNNY'S hornpipe seems entrapping:<br>Now FREDDY'S graceful ENTRECHATS -<br>Now JOHNNY'S skilful "cellar-flapping."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For many hours - for many days -<br>For many weeks performed each brother,<br>For each was active in his ways,<br>And neither would give in to t'other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After a month of this, they say<br>(The maid was getting bored and moody)<br>A wandering curate passed that way<br>And talked a lot of goody-goody.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Oh my," said he, with solemn frown,<br>"I tremble for each dancing FRATER,<br>Like unregenerated clown<br>And harlequin at some the-ayter."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He showed that men, in dancing, do<br>Both impiously and absurdly,<br>And proved his proposition true,<br>With Firstly, Secondly, and Thirdly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For months both JOHN and FREDDY danced,<br>The curate's protests little heeding;<br>For months the curate's words enhanced<br>The sinfulness of their proceeding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length they bowed to Nature's rule -<br>Their steps grew feeble and unsteady,<br>Till FREDDY fainted on a stool,<br>And JOHNNY on the top of FREDDY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Decide!" quoth they, "let him be named,<br>Who henceforth as his wife may rank you."<br>"I've changed my views," the maiden said,<br>"I only marry curates, thank you!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says FREDDY, "Here is goings on!<br>To bust myself with rage I'm ready."<br>"I'll be a curate!" whispers JOHN -<br>"And I," exclaimed poetic FREDDY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But while they read for it, these chaps,<br>The curate booked the maiden bonny -<br>And when she's buried him, perhaps,<br>She'll marry FREDERICK or JOHNNY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</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=538956" data-title="John and Freddy de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="JOHN courted lovely MARY ANN, So likewise did his brother, FREDDY. FRED was a very soft young man, While JOHN, though quick, was most unsteady. FRED was a graceful kind of youth, But JOHN was very much the strongest. "Oh, dance away," s..."></div> </div> </div>
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