“The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where,
That wholly consisted of lines like these.”

—  Charles Stuart Calverley

Ballad; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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