Sir John Franklin

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    “If I a fancy take
    To black and blue,
    That fancy doth it beauty make.”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “Fight on for Scottland and Saint Andrew
    Till you heare my whistle blowe.”
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton.

    EnSB. English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)

    “What should we know,
    For better or worse,
    Of the Long Ago,
    Were it not for Verse:”
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    “It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable man in society, “never to contradict any body.””
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)