62588. Unknown. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	62588
QUOTATION:	Four and twenty at her back And they were a’ clad out in green; Tho the King of Scotland had been there The warst o’ them might hae been his Queen. On we lap and awa we rade Till we cam to yon bonny ha’ Whare the roof was o’ the beaten gold And the floor was o’ the cristal a’.
ATTRIBUTION:	Unknown. The Wee Wee Man (l. 21–28). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and theBD«ûO+«ûX¥