Isaac Bickerstaff. 1735-1787

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1.

There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sung from morn till night:
No lark more blithe than he.

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.

And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be,—
I care for nobody, no, not I,
If no one cares for me.[427:3]

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Love in a Village. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Ay, do despise me! I 'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc. 1.