English Song Originally

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    “We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    “Sumer is icumen in,
    Lhude sing cuccu!
    Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
    And springth the wude nu--
    Sing cuccu!”
    —Anonymous. Cuckoo Song (c. 1250)

    “If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)