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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539040" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Precocious Baby - a Very True Tale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An elderly person - a prophet by trade -<br>With his quips and tips<br>On withered old lips,<br>He married a young and a beautiful maid;<br>The cunning old blade!<br>Though rather decayed,<br>He married a beautiful, beautiful maid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was only eighteen, and as fair as could be,<br>With her tempting smiles<br>And maidenly wiles,<br>And he was a trifle past seventy-three:<br>Now what she could see<br>Is a puzzle to me,<br>In a prophet of seventy - seventy-three!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all their acquaintances bidden (or bad)<br>With their loud high jinks<br>And underbred winks,<br>None thought they'd a family have - but they had;<br>A dear little lad<br>Who drove 'em half mad,<br>For he turned out a horribly fast little cad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when he was born he astonished all by,<br>With their &quot;Law, dear me!&quot;<br>&quot;Did ever you see?&quot;<br>He'd a pipe in his mouth and a glass in his eye,<br>A hat all awry -<br>An octagon tie -<br>And a miniature - miniature glass in his eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He grumbled at wearing a frock and a cap,<br>With his &quot;Oh, dear, oh!&quot;<br>And his &quot;Hang it! 'oo know!&quot;<br>And he turned up his nose at his excellent pap -<br>&quot;My friends, it's a tap<br>Dat is not worf a rap.&quot;<br>(Now this was remarkably excellent pap.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'd chuck his nurse under the chin, and he'd say,<br>With his &quot;Fal, lal, lal&quot; -<br>&quot;'Oo doosed fine gal!&quot;<br>This shocking precocity drove 'em away:<br>&quot;A month from to-day<br>Is as long as I'll stay -<br>Then I'd wish, if you please, for to toddle away.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father, a simple old gentleman, he<br>With nursery rhyme<br>And &quot;Once on a time,&quot;<br>Would tell him the story of &quot;Little Bo-P,&quot;<br>&quot;So pretty was she,<br>So pretty and wee,<br>As pretty, as pretty, as pretty could be.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the babe, with a dig that would startle an ox,<br>With his &quot;C'ck! Oh, my! -<br>Go along wiz 'oo, fie!&quot;<br>Would exclaim, &quot;I'm afraid 'oo a socking ole fox.&quot;<br>Now a father it shocks,<br>And it whitens his locks,<br>When his little babe calls him a shocking old fox.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The name of his father he'd couple and pair<br>(With his ill-bred laugh,<br>And insolent chaff)<br>With those of the nursery heroines rare -<br>Virginia the Fair,<br>Or Good Goldenhair,<br>Till the nuisance was more than a prophet could bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;There's Jill and White Cat&quot; (said the bold little brat,<br>With his loud, &quot;Ha, ha!&quot;)<br>&quot;'Oo sly ickle Pa!<br>Wiz 'oo Beauty, Bo-Peep, and 'oo Mrs. Jack Sprat!<br>I've noticed 'oo pat<br>MY pretty White Cat -<br>I sink dear mamma ought to know about dat!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He early determined to marry and wive,<br>For better or worse<br>With his elderly nurse -<br>Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive:<br>His hearth didn't thrive -<br>No longer alive,<br>He died an enfeebled old dotard at five!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MORAL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, elderly men of the bachelor crew,<br>With wrinkled hose<br>And spectacled nose,<br>Don't marry at all - you may take it as true<br>If ever you do<br>The step you will rue,<br>For your babes will be elderly - elderly too.</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>
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With his quips and tips
On withered old lips,
He married a young and a beautiful maid;
The cunning old blade!
Though rather decayed,
He married a beautiful, beautiful maid.

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