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Famous quotes containing the word lady:

    “Sweet Suffolk Owl, so trimly dight
    With feathers, like a lady bright,
    Thou sing’st alone, sitting by night,
    Te whit! Te whoo! Te whit! To whit!”
    —Thomas Vautor (fl. c. 1590?)

    “I askèd a thief to steal me a peach
    He turned up his eyes
    I ask’d a lithe lady to lie her down
    Holy & meek she cries—

    As soon as I went
    An angel came.
    He wink’d at the thief
    And smild at the dame—

    And without one word said
    Had a peach from the tree
    And still as a maid
    Enjoy’d the lady.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)