We must not fail to register these two Questions Well Answered, which it is hard to match for excellence:—
Q.—Why did the fly fly?
A.—Because the spider spied her!
And
Q.—Why did the lobster blush?
A.—Because it saw the salad dressing!
The following puzzling lines were the outburst of the wanton wit of a lover, in his effort to play off one lady against another, and so retain two strings to his bow:—
I don’t want the one that I don’t want to know
That I want the one that I want;
But the one that I do want wants me to go
And give up the one I don’t want.
Why I don’t want the one that I don’t want to know
That I want the one that I want,
Is because, if the one that I want can’t be so,
I shall want the one I don’t want.
Charles Lamb was responsible for the following ingenious perversion of words, when the Whig associates of the Prince Regent were sore at not obtaining office:—