Sir William Courtenay

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    “‘Come, walk like this,’ the dancer said,
    ‘Stick you your toes—stick in your head,
    Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread—
    Your fingers thus extend;
    The attitude’s considered quaint,’”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)

    “It’s very hot,
    And weighs a lot,
    As many a guardsman knows,
    So off that helmet goes.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)