“Damon, who plied the undertaker’s trade,

With Doctor Crateas an agreement made.

What linens Damon from the dead could seize,

He to the doctor sent for bandages;

While the good doctor, here no promise-breaker,

Sent all his patients to the undertaker.”

Anon
LONG AND SHORT

“Dick cannot blow his nose whene’er he pleases

His nose so long is, and his arm so short;

Nor ever cries, ‘God bless me!’ when he sneezes—