Earl Brand is one of the Child ballads 7 (Roud 23). Legend claims it recounts a historical event.
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Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or brand:
“Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)
“Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)