The greatest aise can do:
Just take the herb called chick-weed,
Which they often cure the sick wid,
That’s a dacent rhyme for liquid,
And from a Mickey, too.
Some one having challenged a rhyme for carpet, the following “lines to a pretty barmaid” were elicited in response:—
Sweet maid of the inn,
’Tis surely no sin
To toast such a beautiful bar pet;
Believe me, my dear,