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First Line: The bluebeard of this drama, you must know
Last Line: He was as one might say a self-made widower.
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


[A Masque of Bigotry.]

The Bluebeard of this Drama, you must know,
Lived in a distant country long ago.
The shameful deeds by that base wretch committed
In modern times would never be permitted.
Look at his beard, his beard alone would show
How he hates happiness and worships woe.
With Bigotry and Blue Laws through and through
His soul is steeped; that's why his beard is blue.
Eight maids in turn did Bluebeard take to wife,
Each one a Joy, and since her aim in life
Was to make life more joyous, he got rid o' her;
He was as one might say a self-made widower.





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