A Long, Sad Tale

"Off with her head!"
Head, heal, teal, tell, tall, tail...

"Mine is a long and a sad tale!"
"It is a long tail, certainly
But why do you call it sad?"
Turn witch into fairy
Witch, winch, wench, tench, tenth, tents, tints
Tilts, tills, fills, falls, fails, fairs, fairy!

Fury said to a mouse
That he met in the house
"Let us both go to law:
I will prosecute you. -- Come
I'll take no denial;
We must have a trial:
For really this morning
I’ve nothing to do."

Furies, buries, buried, burked, barked, barred, barrel...

Said the mouse to the cur
"Such a trial, dear Sir
With no jury or judge
Would be wasting our breath."
"I'll be judge, I'll be jury,"
Said cunning old Fury:
"I’ll try the whole cause
And condemn you to death."
Quilt, guilt, guile, guide, glide, slide, slice, spice
Spine, spins, shins, shies, shier, sheer, sheet...