YORK'S LADY MAYORESS.
At York thero is a local saying:— My lord is my lord for a year and a day, But my lady's my lady for aye and for aye. This rhyino is associated with the old practico of calling a Lady Mayoress of York "Lady" during her wliolo life. It somehow reminds 0110 of another old saying:— My son is my son till he's jrot him a wife, But my da filter's my daughter all her life.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 475, 6 April 1909, Page 3
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79YORK'S LADY MAYORESS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 475, 6 April 1909, Page 3
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