Quote#Wisdom
And this the burden of his song
Quote byIsaac Bickerstaffe · 1733–1812
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2. Compare: "If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody", Robert Burns, I hae a Wife o' my Ain; "I envy none, no, no, not I, And no one envies me", Charles Mackay, The King and the Miller..
English (original)
And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,— I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.
— Isaac Bickerstaffe
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.