“And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be,—
I care for nobody, no, not I,
If no one cares for me.”

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2. Compare: "If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody", Robert Burns, I hae a Wife o' my Ain; "I envy none, no, no, not I, And no one envies me", Charles Mackay, The King and the Miller.

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Irish playwright and librettist 1733–1812

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