| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22059 |
| QUOTATION: | Oh the roast beef of England, And old Englands roast beef! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Fielding (17071754), British novelist, dramatist. repr. In The Works of Henry Fielding, ed. W.E. Henle (1903). Air 45, The Kings Old Corkier, sung by Susan, in The Grub Street Opera, act 3, sc. 3, l. 41-42 (1731). |
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