(To be read or said rapidly.)
Betty bit a bit o’ butter,
Bitter bit!
But a better bit o’ butter
Betty bit!
PHONETIC VERSE
“A haunt each mermaid knows”
Eh horn teach myrrh made nose,
Buy seize wear awl groat ales;
Hear chilled wrens port inn rose,
Seek your gain steals oar wails.
Sum son there yell oh hare,
Sums whim threw sigh leant baize;
Sow form sand fay says fare
Shy never knight sand daze.
PORSON’S EPIGRAM
Porson wrote a Latin epigram on a Fellow of one of the Colleges who always pronounced the a of Euphrates short. This was wittily translated thus:—
With fear on the Euphrates shore
The wild waves made him shiver.
But he thought to pass more quickly o’er,
So he abridged—the river!
ALL THE ALPHABET
All the letters of the alphabet are used in these lines, which have such an easy flow:—