In Shakespeare's keep

Happenstance is but a silly, random word that
To William Shakespeare might have occurred
For inclusion within his comedies designed.
Though folk today are less inclined
To let it easily roll off the tongue
In any conversation just recently begun.
Now methinks that Wordsworth nare abused
And Coleridge would have been less than amused
To use it plainly, so to speak, in what e’r they wrote
Or said in speech to others of their kind,
Over mussels or juicy steak and claret when they dined.
But hear me out I beg you do, this word will have me
Harras you, until we gently lay it down to sleep,
So it may stay forever in William Shakespeare’s keep.