Edgar Allan Poe — "To be good, a double entendre should be at least good English when viewed on eit…"

To be good, a double entendre should be at least good English when viewed on either side. Now we may lay by a piece of money — but we lie by a wife.
Edgar Allan Poe — Edgar Allan Poe Modern · Horror, detective fiction

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Poe's critique of a pun by Mr. Benjamin.

Date: 1840s (attributed in 1943 by Clarence Brigham)

Humorous

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