Billing Quote by Richard Harris Barham

“Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.”

Richard Harris Barham

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He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.

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The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in…

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Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

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His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

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I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

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Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

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