"A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright, Conversed as they sat on the green. They gazed on each other with tender delight, Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight— The maiden's the Fair Imogene."

"Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship."

"Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought, Love gives itself, but is not bought."

"Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

"I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth My love will have a sense of pity in it, Making it less a worship than before."

"So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire."

"Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way."

"Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. . . . . . . Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore:— I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more."

"True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world."

"Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near."

"Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang."

"As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions."

"Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip,—the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal on his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! hath she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?"

"It is better to poyson hir with the sweet bait of love."

"Nothing is more hateful than love."

"The lover in the husband may be lost."

"None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair: But Love can hope where Reason would despair."

"But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, Wilt not thou love me for myself alone? Yes, thou wilt love me with exceeding love, And I will tenfold all that love repay; Still smiling, though the tender may reprove, Still faithful, though the trusted may betray."

"This lass so neat, with smile so sweet, Has won my right good will, I'd crowns resign to call her mine, Sweet lass of Richmond Hill."

"When Madelon comes out to serve us drinks, We always know she's coming by her song. And every man he tells his little tale, And Madelon, she listens all day long. Our Madelon is never too severe— A kiss or two is nothing much to her— She laughs us up to love and life and God— Madelon, Madelon, Madelon."

"Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?"

"Love me little, love me long."

"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, or hills, or fields, Or woods and steepy mountains, yield."

"Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, il faut aimer ce que l'on a."

": If one does not possess what one loves, one should love what one has."

"Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum posse dicere: non amo te."

": I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee.""

"I do not love thee, Dr. Fell. But why I cannot tell; But this I know full well, I do not love thee, Dr. Fell."

"Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas; Je n'en saurois dire la cause; Je sais seulement une chose. C'est que je ne vous aime pas."

"I love thee not, Nell But why I can't tell."

"I love him not, but show no reason wherefore, but this, I do not love the man."

"Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire."

"'Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new."

"It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new."

"I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still."

"Love is all in fire, and yet is ever freezing; Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing: Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying; Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying; Love does doat in liking, and is mad in loathing; Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing."

"I never heard Of any true affection but 'twas nipped."

"He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all."

"Such sober certainty of waking bliss."

"La fleur nominée héliotrope tourne sans cesse vers cet astre du jour, aussi mon cœur dorénavant tournera-t-il toujours vers les astres resplendissants de vos yeux adorables, ainsi que son pôle unique."

": The flower called heliotrope turns without ceasing to that star of the day, so also my heart henceforth will turn itself always towards the resplendent stars of your adorable eyes, as towards its only pole."

"L'amour est souvent un fruit de mariage."

": Love is often a fruit of marriage."

"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, Because it was he; because it was I. There is beyond all that I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and fated power that brought on this union."

"Celuy ayme peu qui ayme à la mesure."

": He loves little who loves by rule."