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Readers have been composing clerihews with gusto. Clerihews are ‘ludicrously uninformative biography’ in the shape of non-scanning, rhyming couplets, with the subject’s name in the first line. Here are some of Quakers:Joan Condon:
Elizabeth Fry
Made delicious apple pie
On five pound notes, if you look,
You’ll see the face of this very good cook.
James Nayler
Was not a good sailor.
He found the motion of waves rather sinister
It left him quite unable to minister
William Penn wore a sword
Whenever he ventured abroad.
Fox said ‘wear it as long as thou canst’,
So Penn threw it away, and he danced!
Elizabeth Fry Made delicious apple pie On five pound notes, if you look, You’ll see the face of this very good cook.
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