When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face. (Edmund Clerihew Bentley)

When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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