Famous quotes containing the words chief and/or clerk:
“The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly Knots inside.”
—Hilaire Belloc (18701953)
“Then louder cryd the Clerk Colvill,
O sairer, sairer akes my head;
And sairer, sairer ever will,
The maiden crys, till you be dead.”
—Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 3336)