“We've been together now for forty years,
An' it don't seem a day too much,
There ain't a lady livin' in the land
As I'd "swop" for my dear old Dutch.”

— Albert Chevalier

Song My Old Dutch http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/musichall/olddutch1.html (1892).

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English music hall comedian and singer 1861–1923

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