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KING FASHION
- THERE was a King of England once,
- I shall not tell his name,
- But what this King of England thought,
- The people thought the same.
- All that he said they listened to,
- And called it wondrous wise;
- On everything in earth or heaven
- They looked with courtiers’ eyes.
- To every one of his commands
- They said, “So let it be.”
- There never yet a monarch was
- More absolute than he.
- One day within his presence‐hall
- Two men stood forth together—
- One dressed in velvet and in gold,
- The other clad in leather.
- The King said to his people,
- “Remember what you’re told,
- You may kick the man in leather,
- You must kiss the man in gold.”
- Whilst on a country walk one day,
- The King espied a frog.
- “Why, here,” said he, “I’ve found a most
- Peculiar kind of dog!
- “He shall have meat for breakfast,
- Of milk three saucers full,
- A golden collar for his neck,
- And a bed of cotton‐wool.”
- Then every courtier kept a frog
- And called it a peculiar dog!
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