There was a jolly Milum once
Lived on the river Dee;
He work'd, and sung, from morn till night,
No Lark more blythe than he.
And this the burden of his song,
For ever us'd to be,
"I care for nobody, not I,
If no one cares for me."


-- Issac Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village (a very successful opera of 1762)