William Stevenson (poet)

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Sir William Stevenson (1530 - 1575) was a English poet.

Born in Durham, England, he became a clergyman and author.

Famous quotation: "I am so wrapped, and throughly lapped of jolly good ale and old!" Gammer Gurton’s Needle: Drinking Song (attributed to Stevenson and to Still) The Columbia World of Quotations.

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