From Bon-Mots of the Nineteen Century, edited by Walter JerroldLANDOR
"Hearing someone sing a song of Moore's in which occured the line --
'Our couch shall be roses bespangled with dew'
Landor said that any sensible girl would retort
'Twould give me rheumatics, and so it would you.'"
COL (chuckle out loud)
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