"I knew a very wise man that believed that * * * if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation."
— Ballads

January 1, 1970

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Andrew Fletcher, quoting the Earl of Cromarty; Letters to the Marquis of Montrose, in Fletcher's Works (ed. 1749), p. 266.