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Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

— Isaac Bickerstaffe Love in a Village (1762)

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

The Maide of the Mill (1765)

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Love in a Village (1762)

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

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

The Maide of the Mill (1765)

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

The Padlock (1768)

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