 Trust me, Master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause that our good Queen Elizabeth did so often wish herself a Milkmaid all the month of May, because they are not troubled with fears and cares,...  The Compleat Angler - Page 67by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1863 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alycia Smith Howard - Performing Arts - 2006 - 224 pages
...have mummies and daddies in town with large incomes.67 rural freedom: 'Our Good Queen Elizabeth did often wish herself a milkmaid all the month of May...all the day and sleep securely all the night.''"* In her programme Goodbody also noted how the figures of shepherds and shepherdesses were incorporated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Married women - 1921 - 198 pages
...Thomas Page, which is pretty virginity,' and as genuinely English as the child that set Venator musing, 'I now see it was not without cause that our good...often wish herself a milkmaid all the month of May.' Shakespeare, never so happily sure of himself as in portraiture of a husband-high maiden, never drew... | |
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