Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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ISAAC BICKERSTAFF.  1735-1787.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1.

There was a jolly miller once,

Lived on the river Dee;

He worked and sung from morn till night:

No lark more blithe than he.

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.

And this the burden of his song