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Samuel Butler on Wedding

1612–1680 England

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Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Part II (1664)

Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.

Part II (1664)

'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.

Part III (1678)

What mad lover ever dy'd,
To gain a soft and gentle bride?
Or for a lady tender-hearted,
In purling streams or hemp departed?

Hudibras, Part III (1678)

’Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows
They should be suffered to espouse.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

He that will win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
No more than on the thing they lean.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.