O! married love! thy bard shall own, Thy lamp with heaven's own splendours bright. John Langhorne. For if we love one another, Nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. July 23. Longfellow (Evangeline). My lady's beauty passeth more Earl of Surrey. Let me not to the marriage of true minds July 24. Shakespeare. I love her for her smile, her look, her way E. B. Browning. For woman is all truth and steadfastness, Chaucer. Only a woman, you tell me! Only a woman to thee! But there's naught that this earth containeth V. Gabriel. Love makes all sweetness in our life, July 26. M. h Thus in extremes of cold and heat, In woman they compassion find. Crabbe. My wife's great defect is her want of cheerfulness, and expecting me every moment to be petting her like a Dutch pug. July 27. J. Buckstone. Her lips do smell like unto gilliflowers, Her snowy brows like unto budded bellamoures, Her lovely eyes like pinks but newly spread. In constancy and nuptial love Spenser. Gay. I will love more than man e'er lov'd before me, Since earthly joy abidis never, July 29. Thrice happy is that humble pair Over whose heads those arrows fly Dryden. Dunbar. Waller. Anger is like a troubled sea; when it is corrected with a soft reply, as with a little strand, it retires, and leaves nothing behind but froth and shells. July 30. Jeremy Taylor. I have honour and fame full enough for my lot, And my gettings still add to the treasures I've got ; My horse is my glory-my sabre is true, And O! my sweet wife! thou art faithfulness too. M. Zrinyi, trans. by Sir J. Bowring. I never knew a woman so dote upon a man. Shakespeare (Merry Wives of Windsor). |