C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Gipsies

There are men and women who are in life as the wild river and the night-owl, as the blasted tree and the wind over ancient graves.

Charles G. Leland.

Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
Except the ill of being poor,
Who charms ’gainst love and agues sell,
Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
Prepar’d by arts, to them best known
To catch all feet except their own,
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
As easily as pick a pocket.

Churchill.

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