O woman! in our hours of ease By the light quivering aspens made ;- Walter Scott (Marmion). Dear my lord! Make me acquainted with your cause of grief. Shakespeare (Julius Cæsar). January 8. "The cook's a hasher-nothing more- A wife's a quiz, and home's a bore "- T. Hood. Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you Play the housewife with me this afternoon. January 9. Shakespeare (Coriolanus). 'Tis a match that we all must approve, Lady Dufferin. I will remain The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth. Shakespeare (Cymbeline). Oh, love! what changes we have seen, what cares and pleasures, too, Since you became my own dear wife, when this old ring was new. W. C. Bennett. I do love, with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, than mine own life, January II. Shakespeare (Coriolanus). So at last we are married! Our troth had been plighted Not by moonbeam nor starbeam, by fountain or grove, But in a front parlour most brilliantly lighted, Beneath the gas fixtures, we whispered our love. W. A. Butler. She's notable enough; and as for temper- January 12. Robert Southey. The joys of love, if they should ever last That worldly chances do amongst them cast, Spenser (The Faerie Queene). She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. Shakespeare (Othello). |