As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me: ’twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be (as too many men too often do); but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Walton/Compleat, 1653
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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