And exercise, and heartes suffisance : No wine ne drank she, neither white nor red; Her board was served with white and black, Milk and brown bread, in which she found no lack; Seinde bacon, and sometimes an egg or tway, For she was as it were a manner day. Chaucer. As a Wife. She is so conjunctive to my life and soul, Shakespeare. I feel my spirit humbled when you call My love of home a virtue: 'tis the part Yourself have play'd has fix'd me; for the heart As is the love I bear you; 'tis my all- Sees nought to lure his constant heart away Clarke. The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities. Southey. Her best Attractions as a Wife. Ye fair married dames, who so often deplore That prudence must cherish what beauty has caught. The bloom of your cheek, and the glance of your eye, Use the The sparrow and linnet will feed from your hand, will. Be gay and good humour'd, complying and kind, Turn the chief of your care from your face to your mind; 'Tis thus that a wife may her conquests improve, And Hymen shall rivet the fetters of Love. Garrick. |