To love, cherish, and to obey.
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my wordly goods I thee endow.
He that said it was not good for man to be
alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior
states of perfection.
Boyle—Works. Vol. VI. P. 292. Letter from
Mr. Evelyn.
I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell
Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.
Richard Brathwait—English Gentelman and
Gentelwoman (1640), in a supplemental
tract, Tke Turtle's Triumph. Phrase "lead
apes in hell" found in his Drunken Barnaby's Journal. Bessy Bell. | author = Massinger
| work =
City Madam. Act II. Sc. 2. Shirley—
School of Compliments. (1637)
| seealso = (See also Taming of the Shrew)
Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,
Who has no will but by her high permission;
Who has not sixpence but in her possession;
Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell;
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.
Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.
BiritNS—The Henpecked Husband.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches
are made in heaven.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Pt. III.
Sec. II. Mem. 5. Subs. 5.
| seealso = (See also Lyly, Merchant of Venice)
'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therfore no true Saint allows,
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L.
1,293.
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| topic = Matrimony
| page = 496
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = For talk six times with the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dresses ready.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan. Canto XII. St. 59.
There was no great disparity of years,
Though much in temper; but they never
clash'd,
They moved like stars united in their spheres,
Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd,
Where mingled and yet separate appears
The river from th j lake, all blnely dash'd
Through the serene and placid glassy deep,
Wliich fain would lull its river-child to sleep.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 8".
Una mugcr no tiene.
Valor para el conseio, y la conviene Casarse.
A woman needs a stronger head than her
own for counsel—she should marry.
Calderon—El Purgatorio de Sans Patricio.
III. 4.
To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with
a plover's
Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the
Sally Lunn,
Or dissects the lucky pheasaDt—that, I think,
were passing pleasant
As I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a
dun.
Calverley—In the Gloaming. (Parody on
Mrs. Browning.}})
| topic = Matrimony
| page = 496
}}
{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>We've been together now for forty years,
An' it don't seem a day too much;
There ain't a lady livin' in the land
As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.
Albert Chevalier—My Old Dutch.
Man and wife,
Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Churchill—Bosciad. L. 1,005.
Oh! how many torments he in the small circle
of a wedding ring.
COLLEY ClBBER.
15
Prima societas in ipso conjugio est: proxima
in liberis; deinde una domus, communia omnia.
The first bond of society is marriage; the
next, our children; then the whole family and
all things in common.
Cicero—De Ofiiciis. I. 17.
<poem>Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure,
Marry'd in haste, we may repent at leisure. Congreve—The Old Bachelor. Act V. Sc. 1.
*
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry— Choose not alone a proper mate,
But proper time to marry.)
| topic = Matrimony | page = 496
}}
<poem>Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout, Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out. Sir John Davtes—Contention Betwixt a Wife, etc.
<poem>At length cried she, I'll marry:
What should I tarry for? I may lead apes in hell forever. Dibdtn—Tack and Tack.
The wictim o' connubiality
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>Every woman should marry—and no man.
Benj. Disraeli—Lothair. Ch. XXX. '22 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in. Emerson—Representative Men. Montaigne.
| seealso = (See also Davtes)
