“The gentle Lady married to the Moor,
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Personal Talk, Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There he heard a Lady talking,
To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,—
'Tis the lady Jingly Jones!
On that little heap of stones
Sits the Lady Jingly Jones!”
St. 2. <br class="br"> The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
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