Descends to speak laymen’s vulgar tongue.
So be it! Explicit-parum feliciter.
It is usually considered that The Cock and the Bull, by the late C. S. Calverley, is the best parody extant of Robert Browning’s “The Ring and the Book,” the following are the opening lines:—
“The Cock and the Bull.”
You see this pebble stone? It’s a thing I bought
Of a bit of a chit of a boy i’ the mid o’ the day.
I like to dock the smaller parts o’ speech,
As we curtail the already cur-tailed cur
(You catch the paronomasia-play ’po’ words?)
Did, rather, i’ the pre-Landseerian days.