Famous quotes containing the words fathom and/or bank:
“O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know
how many fathom deep I am in love!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“on a May morwening upon Malverne hilles
Me befel a ferly, of fairye me thoughte;
I was wery ofwandred and wente me to reste
Under a brod bank by a bournes side;
And as I lay and lenede and lookede on the watres,
I slomerede into a sleeping, it swyede so merye.”
—William Langland (1330–1400)