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The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.

Ali Ben Abd (11th Century)

To an Inconsistent Fair

WHEN I sent you some melons, you cried out with scorn,

“They ought to be heavy and wrinkled and yellow!”

When I offered myself, whom those graces adorn,

You flouted, and called me an ugly old fellow.