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I Was Promised On A Time To Have Reason For My Rhyme
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I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.
-- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599)
-- Lines on his Promised Pension
Related:
Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
-- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Underwoods. Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme...
Neither rhyme nor reason. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act iii, Sc. 2
Harry, a golfing enthusiast if there ever was one, arrived home from the club to an irate, ranting wife.
"I'm leaving you, Harry," his wife announced bitterly....
Some things are without rhyme or reason.
I don't know where we come from, Don't know where we're going to, And if all this should have a reason, We would be the last to know.
So let's just hope there is a promised land, And until then, ....
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry
Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!...
I do everything for a reason, most of the time the reason is for money. -- Suzy Parke
Ladybug, ladybug, Look to your stern! Your house is on fire, Your children will burn!
So jump ye and sing, for The very first time The four lines above Have been put into rhyme....