Myles Standish

Myles Standish (ca. 1584-1656) was a leading member of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. While not actually part of the Pilgrims religious sect, he served as an advisor, administrator, and militia commander.
Despite his historical role, Standish would be best known in popular memory due to the 1858 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem The Courtship of Miles Standish, in which the veteran soldier asks his friend John Alden to speak on his behalf to love interest Priscilla Mullins. 
==References==
*Miles and Standish are two of the titular group in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" from the Sesame Street album Sleepytime Bird (along with Alden and John).
*Bob portrays Miles Can't-Standish in the Trashgiving parade in Sesame Street Episode 4324. Bob wears traditional Pilgrim Puritan garb in the role.
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