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Monday, October 5, 2020

Runcibl'd Spooner: Shylock'd 'n' Loaded ('n' Syllogized...?)


"Quo:Quid::COV:ID"


heart quarter-pounder’d

e'en Jews would leave sluggish:

The Merchant of Venice.

     Which threat -- sore unfounder'd --

looms, Van-Dyked ‘n’ thuggish…?

The Fur-Chin-Tough Menace.

     Moral:

Some qualities of mercy strain’d,

while dreadful, leave us entertain’d.

Chary Choice; or, Cooties in the Lard

     Note  world-weary playwright Sir Noël Cow- ARD,       who  not only pen 'd 'em:  in sev'ral he  starr'd.       Then  ch...