His poem " Darby and Joan " concludes with the following:
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You might be Darby and Joan, and play cribbage to the end of your lives.
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It's quite like Darby and Joan; what a pity the kettle has ceased singing !'
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A dinner was held at the Darby and Joan Hotel in Crowle, before the party returned to Reedness.
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The apparent popularity of this poem led to another titled " Darby and Joan " by St . John Honeywood ( 1763 1798 ).
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The phrase was used satirically by No�l Coward in the song " Bronxville Darby and Joan " from his musical " Sail Away " ( 1961 ).
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In 1969 she recorded a self-written single, the Tamla Motown-styled " Micky ", backed by " Darby and Joan ", both produced by Mike d'Abo for the Immediate label.
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But with Baranski and Mitchell at its center, the evening takes on a polluted air of Darby and Joan domesticity : it's a fireside portrait of a match made in hell.
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I began to wish, with you, that there was no such thing as constancy in the world, particularly when I recollect how very Darby and Joan-like we lived together in London.
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Darby and Joan appear in William Makepeace Thackeray's " The History of Henry Esmond " ( 1852 ), when the beautiful, spoiled Beatrix taunts Esmond for his seemingly hopeless infatuation with her: