Limericks
September, 1963
The Limerick, insists one scholarly source, was introduced to the English-speaking world during the early 17th Century when a detachment of Irish mercenaries returned to County Limerick after serving in the armies of France, bringing with them doggerel both ribald and ripe. Other literary archaeologists, mining the mother lode of lively lyrics, insist that bawdy balladry resembling in form and in content the contemporary limerick was inscribed upon the walls of the bordellos of Pompeii.Whatever...
