Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
St. Ronan's Well (1824), Ch. 7.
“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”
The Maiden Queen, Act iii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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