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In Other Words

J. Spratt liked keeping house,
His wife preferred to board.
“Nothing like that for Colonel Spratt!”
Declared her liegest lord.

Jack Spratt was all for prose,
His wife was all for rhyme;
And so betwixt them both, you see,
They had a helova time.

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