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.
Horror, detective fiction
Poe's critique of a pun by Mr. Benjamin.
1840s (attributed in 1943 by Clarence Brigham)
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