James Hurdis Quotes

James Hurdis was an English clergyman and poet.

✵ 1763 – 1801
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James Hurdis Quotes

“Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.”

The Village Curate. Compare: "To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb", Nicholas Breton, Court and Country (reprint, 1618), p. 183; "Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke", John Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 229.

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