Old Man of Norwich
William Cosmo Monkhouse
There once was an old man of Norwich,
Who could eat twenty bowls of hot porridge;
But he once met a "mon",
Who could eat twenty-one,
So he gave him his daughter in "morriage".
Ha ha ha ha. My grandmother always said that those people in Norfolk were somewhat odd!
There are lots of good poems about Norfolk in the Poetry Atlas.
The Old Man of Norwich with his porridge. Illustration of Monkhouse's Limerick by G K Chesterton.