EIGHTH, Henry the, suitor, blue beard, and church builder. When
a young man he became a benedict, a condition in which he
remained until well along in years. As fast as a queen
appeared at the breakfast table with her hair down her back,
she was dispatched to the block. A couple of queens got ahead
of him. Was nearly as successful in obtaining divorces as
Napoleon, of France, and American millionaires. In his later
years he competed against the Pope in England. Ambition: A
harem. Recreation: Spooning. Dreams: Bad. Address:
Windsor.
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