Living
There was an old person of Bude
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old person of Bude,
Whose deportment was vicious and crude;
He wore a large ruff of pale straw-colored stuff,
Which perplexed all the people of Bude.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Bude.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/222/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Bude.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/222/.
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