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Susannah and the Elders

SUSANNAH the fair
With her beauties all bare,
Was bathing her, was bathing herself in an arbour:

The Elders stood peeping,
And pleased with the dipping,
Would fain have steered into her harbour.
But she in a rage,
Swore she'd never engage,
With monsters, with monsters, with monsters

so old and so feeble.
This caused a great rout,
Which had ne'er come about,
Had the Elders been sprightly and able.

[Anonymous]
 


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