Yet themes nicked from Meg, and others from the even bigger-selling ballad of Mary Ambree, about a fictional female officer avenging the death of her sergeant-major lover in the Spanish-Flemish wars, recur in plays we do have from the next century.
The McGuinns were major Gershwin lovers.
There is only one major set of lovers, Rosalind and Orlando (Joseph Midyett), to keep track of.
A decade later, she revealed that she and Mr Major were former lovers and she felt betrayed that she was not offered a Cabinet job.
One might infer from them the tarot's Major Arcana, the Lovers.
In 1874 he discovered that his wife had a lover called Major Harry Larkyns, whom he immediately sought out.
But the gentle flow of his ideas, and the delicate way he teases out the opening phrases of the slow movement of the Brahms B major -- like a lover finding the point just before a caress collapses into a tickle -- may perhaps, in this dull age, make up for any quantity of ocher and feathers.
At one point, life had me commuting between Naples and Bosnia; between the Vesuvian city where Sontag set (and I therefore had to read) her first major novel, The Volcano Lover - about Emma Hamilton's affair with Lord Nelson - and Sarajevo, where Sontag was then directing a production of Waiting for Godot under shellfire.
Between it all, I'm a writer, cook, organic enthusiast, romance novel lover, and major music fan who does yoga.
MUNICH is a major destination for beer lovers, history buffs and music fans, but lately the Bavarian capital has been recognized as a great place to live.
