MATRIMONY MATRIMONY
who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out. Quitard—Etudes sur fes Proverbes Francais. P. 102.
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Widowed wife and wedded maid. Scott—The Betrothed. Ch.XV. </poem>
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Marriage is a desperate thing.
John Seijjen—Table Talk. Marriage.
If you shall marry,
You give away this hand, and that is mine;
You give away heaven's vows, and those are
mine;
You give away myself, which is known mine.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 3. L.
169.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 147.
I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:
Thou art an elm, my husband, I, a vine. Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 175. </poem>
Men's vows are women's traitors! AH good
seeming,
By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought
Put on for villany; not born where 't grows,
But worn a bait for ladies.
Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 55.
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 154.
The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 192.
- God, the best maker of all marriages,
Combine your hearts in one.
He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 437.
A world-without-end bargain.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 799.
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
. Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. L. 83.
Same in Sckole House for Women. (1541)
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| text = <poem>As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear
And summon him to marriage.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 51.
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 162.
I will marry her, sir, at your request; but if
there be no great love in the begi nn ing, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance
- * * I hope, upon familiarity will grow more
contempt: I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 1. L.
253.
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,
Than that which with'ring on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I. Sc. 1. L.
76.
I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. * * * I would to God some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 258. </poem>
No, the world must be peopled. When I said,
I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should
live till I were married.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 353.
Let husbands know,
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and
smell,
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have.
Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 94.
She is not well married that lives married long:
But she's best married that dies married young.
She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance barefoot on her wedding day
And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 32.
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| text = <poem>If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns and when be married.
Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 180.
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at
leisure.
Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 11.
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She shall watch all night:
And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl
And with the clamour keep her still awake.
This is the way to kill a wife with kindness.
Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 218.
Thy husband * * * commits his body
To painful labour, both by sea and land,
And craves no other tribute at thy hands,
But love, fair looks, and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Taming of the Shrew. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 152.
