"We’ll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly, Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy: Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea, Dame Venus, love’s lady, Was born of the sea; ..."
— Seafood

January 1, 1970

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Variants: 1. "kiss" for "sport", "Frank, Betty, and Dolly" or "Nan, Betty, and Philly"; 2. "lobsters and oysters", "maids by the belly"; 3. "man" for "lass"