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2Could eat no fat,
3His wife could eat no lean;
4And so betwixt them both,
5They lick'd the platter clean.

Notes

1] See The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, ed. Iona and Peter Opie (1951; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), no. 264, p. 238. Back to Line