Жил один мужичок из Дижона,
Дал обеты любви он трем женам.
"Зачем третья, скажи?", -
"Ну, с одной-то - не жизнь,
Двоеженство ж, увы, вне закона".
There once was an Old Man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time.
When asked, “Why the third?”
He replied, “One’s absurd,
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.”
© William Cosmo Monkhouse
© Анна Бочкова, перевод
Лимерик про троеженца. У. К. Монкхауз
© Copyright: Анна Бочкова, 2018
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Among English authors of Limericks may be mentioned the late Cosmo Monkhouse, who published a book of them, of which we subjoin:
There once was an Old Man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time.
When asked, “Why the third?”
He replied, “One’s absurd,
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.”
http://nonsenselit.wordpress.com/limericks-1903/
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There once was an Old Man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time.
When asked, “Why the third?”
He replied, “One’s absurd,
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.”
http://nonsenselit.wordpress.com/limericks-1903/
Прозектор Перец Хитрый 2 01.12.2018 21:00 • Заявить о нарушении