"Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (also known as "Lady Margaret" and "Lady Margaret and Sweet William") is a folk song, collected by Francis James Child and cataloged as Child Ballad 74. It appeared in The Percy Folio, and Thomas Percy reported that it was quoted in the Knight of the Burning Pestle (1611).
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Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or sweet:
“What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the
tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored
taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous
to demand the time of the day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)