English as she is spoke - poem on the difficulties of English pronunication

Below is an old poem on the difficulties of English pronunciation - no author given just 'G'

English as she is spoke

I take it you already know

of tough and bough and cough and dough.

Others may stumble but not you

on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.

Well done!  And now you wish perhaps

To know, of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

that looks like beard, and sounds like bird.

And dead, it’s said like bed not bead,

For goodness sake’s, don’t call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)

A moth is not a moth in mother

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear

And then there’s rose and close and lose

Just look them up – and goose and choose

And cork and work and card and ward

And font and front and word and sword

And do and go and thwart and cart.

Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start

A dreadful language? Man alive!

I’d mastered it when I was five.

G