Here's a fascinatingly contemporary-sounding dispatch from the June 21, 1963, Time, on Great Britain's Clintonesque "Profumo Affair":
Significantly, the unpardonable crime of ex-Secretary of State for War John Profumo was not that he was indiscreet and a potential security risk but that he lied to the House of Commons in initially denying any relationship with Christine [Keeler]. Moreover, he lied stupidly, since he might have saved his dignity and his seat as an MP by admitting his misstep. As a limerick that made the rounds of Westminster last week had it:
'What on earth have you done?' said Christine.
'You have wrecked the whole party machine. To lie in the nude Is not at all rude, But to lie in the House is obscene.'