The Crafty Farmer is Child ballad 283, existing in several variants.
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Famous quotes containing the words crafty and/or farmer:
“My talk to thee must be how Benedick
Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter
Is little Cupid’s crafty arrow made,
That only wounds by hearsay.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)