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All In The Downs The Fleet Was Moor'd.
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All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.
-- John Gay (1688-1732)
-- Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan
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Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.
-- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susa...
La cafe doit etre fort comme le mort, noir comme le Maure, et doux comme l'amour.
[Coffee should be strong as death, black as the Moor, and sweet as love.]...
Sweets to the sweet: farewell! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act v, Sc. 1
T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd.
-- John Gay (1688-1732) -- The What d' ye call it, Act ii, Sc. 8...
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse
all good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good....
Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act i, Sc.
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long
And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song....
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue!...
Where yet was ever found a mother Who 'd give her booby for another?
-- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Fables, Part i, The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy...