Quote#Politics & Power
If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day
Quote byJames Stephens · 1882–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "A Glass of Beer" (1918), line 9, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 185..
English (original)
If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day; But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange! May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.
— James Stephens
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