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[Three discarded limericks]


These three limericks were only published in the 1846 and 1855 editions of A Book of Nonsense. I have taken them from J.G. Schiller's Nonsensus, which compares the 1861 edition of Lear's first Nonsense book with the two previous ones. I maintain the lineation in this edition.


There was an Old Man of Kildare,
Who climbed into a very old chair;
When he said,-- "Here I stays,--
till the end of my days,"
        That immovable Man of Kildare.


There was an Old Man of New York, Who murdered himself with a fork;
But nobody cried though he very soon died,-
For that silly Old Man of New York.


There was an Old Sailor of Compton, Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on;
The shock was so great, that it damaged the pate,
Of that singular Sailor of Compton.


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