Have a turnip than a father.
Oliver Goldsmith, humorous writer of plays and novels, left many world famous books.
His rhymes are often of the nonsense variety, and, as was common in his day, abounded in puns, or punning ideas.
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG
Good people all, of every sort,
Give ear unto my song;
And if you find it wondrous short
It cannot hold you long.
In Islington there was a man
Of whom the world might say