Said Willy Shake to Geoffy Chauce:
Should Big Macbeth bleed special sauce
Said Geoffy Chauce to Willy Shake:
Your actors’ legs deserve a break
Said Andy Marv to Johnny Milt:
A river mouth’s a grin of silt
Said Johnny Milt to Andy Marv:
Does Raymond chandle, ush, or carve
Said Eddie Spense to Philly Sid:
A kraken’s paid in giants’ quid
Said Philly Sid to Eddie Spense:
Could Parkour Poesy jump Defence
Said Johnny Dry to Tommy Shad:
Was Angie’s lens a Hasselbrad
Said Tommy Shad to Johnny Dry:
How fast do Mach-heroics fly
Said Willy Word to Robbie South:
I’m feeling Reeve but looking Routh
Said Robbie South to Willy Word:
That thistled wren’s a little burred
Said Alfie Tenn to Tommy Quince:
My fuzzy navel’s mixing lints
Said Tommy Quince to Alfie Tenn:
In Fall Out Boy it’s raining men
Said Ruddy Kip to Eddie Fitz:
Do needles pine for silent knits
Said Eddie Fitz to Ruddy Kip:
Respect my Rubáiyátsmanship
Said Algie Swin to Sammy Cole:
The bells of change exact a toll
Said Sammy Cole to Algie Swin:
Can floating hair be wearing thin
Said Willy Thack to Chuckie Dick:
Invest in sand, and make it quick
Said Chuckie Dick to Willy Thack:
Who doggo-eared my pupperback
Said Lordy By to Sammy But:
I learned to say pourquoi FOR WHAT
Said Sammy But to Lordy By:
Did Stevie’s X’s wonder Y
Said Gerry Hop to Tommy Hard:
That Howard tale’s an old canard
Said Tommy Hard to Gerry Hop:
This Manleysplaining’s gotta stop
Said Georgie El to Janie Aust:
What genre won’t these jerks exhaust
Said Janie Aust to Georgie El:
May all this sausage fry in hell
Starring in order of appearance
William Shakespeare — Geoffrey Chaucer — Andrew Marvell — John Milton — Edmund Spenser — Philip Sidney — John Dryden — Thomas Shadwell — William Wordsworth — Robert Southey — Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Thomas De Quincey — Rudyard Kipling — Edward FitzGerald — Algernon Charles Swinburne — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — William Makepeace Thackeray — Charles Dickens — Lord Byron — Samuel Butler — Gerard Manley Hopkins — Thomas Hardy — George Eliot — and Jane Austen