:For the rugby league footballer of the 1910s for Great Britain, England, Leigh, and Wigan, see William "Billy" Winstanley
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The identity of its original author has been disputed, but is assigned as William Winstanley by Sidney Lee, in the Dictionary of National Biography, who dismisses the claim that Robert Herrick wrote it.