Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be des… - Isaac Bickerstaffe

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Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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About Isaac Bickerstaffe

Isaac Bickerstaffe (26 September 1733 – 1812?) was an Irish playwright who arrived in London in 1755 and produced many successful comedies and opera librettos.

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Alternative Names: Isaac Bickerstaff • Iſaac Bickerſtaffe

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Young fellows will be young fellows.

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

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he.

Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. - Isaac Bickerstaffe

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