Lady Alice

Lady Alice is Child ballad 85. It may be a fragment of a longer ballad that has not been preserved.

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    “That when she essayed
    To drink lemonade,
    She slipped through the straw and fell in.”
    —Unknown. There Was a Young Lady of Lynn (l. 3–5)

    ““Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
    “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I say—that’s the same thing, you know.” “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “Why you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)