In his regard of sexes
Vladimir was oblique!
He ruled men with an iron hand,
But women made him weak.
One of his wives was Grecian
And one from Normandy,
Two were Bohemian beauties,
And one from Bulgary.
Three hundred concubines he kept
Besides, in Belegrad;
Three hundred more in Brestov,
Ten score in Vishegrad.
And when you add the women
He kept in different Clubs—
There weren’t as many beakers
In all the Hessian pubs.
Attending these their mothers,
Their cousins and their aunts,
With numerous confessors
And all their ministrants.
This mighty Camarilla
Was with advice replete,
Just as a butcher’s market
Is ever full of meat.
Well did the clamorous lobby
With candidates abound!
The Tsar was much berated
Because their god he drowned.
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