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

— Isaac Bickerstaffe The Maide of the Mill (1765)

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Source: The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 1.
Work: The Maide of the Mill, 1765
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