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Three Friars

In Sherwood Forest did Friar Tuck

Love a pork pie while

Chaucer's glib wanton spurned

Slum and gutter dwellers, and now tonsured

Brother Dominic, a noble pillar to his Order has been on

Pilgrimage to preach at Durham where the Hounds of the Lord the

Black Friars dwell at St Cuthbert's, and like his

Founding father

St Dominic, the Inquisitor-General, whose

Mother dreamed that she had

Given birth to a dog which lighted the

World with a burning torch, doubtless he observes the

Monastic Rule of prayer and penance while

Seeking to educate the masses as,

Fighting heresy and schism he mortifies himself,

Abstaining from meat, denying himself a bed and

Going not only barefoot but

Bare-faced

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