#355 doggerel

doggerel or dogrel- comic verse, usually irregular in measure; as modifier a doggerel rhythm; nonsense; drivel

C14 dogerel worthless, perhaps from dogge dog


Sir Thopas was a doughty swain,
White was his face as paindemain,
His lippes red as rose.
His rode is like scarlet in grain,
And I you tell in good certain
He had a seemly nose.

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