Isaac Bickerstaffe

Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But - why did you kick me downstairs?

Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

Young fellows will be young fellows.

And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,— I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.

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.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.