Once on a time it by chance came to pass
- DMI number:
- 23175
- First Line:
- Once on a time it by chance came to pass
- Last Line:
- It occasioned more laughter by half than the rest
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Animals, Parents and children, and Trades / labour
- First Line:
- Once on a time it by chance came to pass
- Last Line:
- Shows a world of good nature but labours in vain
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The merry companion, or humorous miscellany [T178332] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- All to no Purpose, or Labour in vain.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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