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You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.
Amphitryon (1690)
Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Nor love his peace of mind destroys,
Nor wicked avarice of wealth.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
As thy strutting bags with money rise,
The love of gain is of an equal size.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Thus then my loved Euryalus appears;
He looks the prop of my declining years.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Quintius here was born,
Whose shining ploughshare was in furrows worn,
Met by his trembling wife, returning home,
And rustically joy’d, as chief of Rome.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)