Lady Mordaunt

Famous quotes containing the words lady and/or mordaunt:

    “Now Lady Maisry is gone home,
    Made him a winding sheet,
    And at the back of merry Lincoln
    The dead corpse did her meet.

    And all the bells of merry Lincoln,
    Without men’s hands were rung,”
    —Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 61–66)

    “Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
    Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
    One crowded hour of glorious life
    Is worth an age without a name.”
    —Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809)