My pattern wife has used me up,

I've neither hope nor pride;

Her needles crook'd have drawn and hook'd
Dead stitches in my side.

G. Bennett.

Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.

August 2.

Shakespeare

(Love's Labour's Lost).

O! smitten by high Heaven be he
Who gives his love to two or three;
I love but one-and if he fail me,
O how could other love avail me!

F. Faludi, trans. by Sir J. Bowring.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand

Where there is not one heart, and one mouth, and one

hand?

August 3.

Longfellow
(Annie of Tharaw).

Thus have I lived, thus have I loved till now,

And found no reason to repent me yet;

And whosoever otherwise will do

His courage is as little as his wit.

Sir Robert Aytoun.

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing, So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. The Ingoldsby Legends.

August 2.

August 3.

Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted
It shrunk not to share it with me;
And the love which my spirit hath painted
It never hath found but in thee.

I have one true heart beside me-
Glad am I ;

I'd not change it for a kingdom

No, not I.

August 5.

Byron.

F. R. Rogerson.

Lady!

I dedicate myself to thy sweet pleasure,
And will continue fast to your affection,
Still close, as sure.

Shakespeare (Cymbeline).

She that is loved is safe; and he that loves is joyful.

August 6.

Like dew on the gowan lying,
Is the fa' o' her fairy feet;

F. Bremer.

And like winds in summer sighing
Her voice is low and sweet.

Songs of Scotland.

Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.

Shakespeare.

August 5.

August 6.

Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?

For if she will, she will, you may depend on't,
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.

Anonymous.

Though on pleasure she was bent,

She had a frugal mind.

Cowper

(History of John Gilpin).

August 8.

They were so one, it never could be said
Which of them ruled, or which of them obeyed;
He ruled because she would obey; and she,
By him obeying, ruled as well as he.

Jeremy Taylor.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

Shakespeare
(The Merchant of Venice).

August 9.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules,
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways,
Yet has her humour when she most obeys.

Women love their husbands,
But they worship their bonnets.

Pope.

Proverb.