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“I do all the good I can—
Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!
And I can’t think why!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“From alle wymmen mi love is lent
And lyht on Alysoun.”
—Unknown. Alison. . .

Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)