Quote#Time
'O gin I find anither ladye,'
Quote byLewis Carroll · 1832–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Rhyme? and Reason? (1883), The Lang Coortin, last two stanzas.
English (original)
'O gin I find anither ladye,' He said wi' sighs and tears, 'I wot my coortin' sall not be Anither thirty years:'For gin I find a ladye gay, Exactly to my taste, I'll pop the question, aye or nay, In twenty years at maist.'
— Lewis Carroll
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