R. Browning (The Inn Album).
I sits with my toes in a brook;
If anyone asks me for why,
I hits him a rap with my crook—
’Tis sentiment kills me, says I.
Horace Walpole.
This was written in a game of bouts rimés (rhymed ends). Four lines had to be composed ending with “brook,” “why,” “crook,” “I.”