The Girl Kept Quine Poem by Douglas Scotney

A girl who behaved like a queen
but wasn't,
once* was called a quine.

Quine, too, was a golden, fragrant fruit.

Quine as both did not stand.

Good spoof of 'queen',
'quine' stayed that type of girl.

From the plural 'quines',
the fruit turned to 'quince'.

*'Once', was when Shakespeare
for 'when' said 'since'.

He said something like this:

You remember, Puck,
Since once I, Oberon,
Upon a promontory sat
And watched a mermaid's
Dulcet and harmonious breath
Civilize a rude sea flat.