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SIR WILLIAM DAWES, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His
clergy dining with him, for the first time, after he had lost his lady,
he told them he feared they did not find things in so good order as they
used to be in the time of poor Mary; and, looking extremely sorrowful,
added, with a deep sigh, She was, indeed, Mare Pacificum. A curate,
who pretty well knew what she had been, said, Ay, my lord, but she was
Mare Mortuum first.
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