Index — Chapter LURE <i>to</i> LOVE (Part 2 of 3)

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 6. (Jessica to Lorenzo.)

Love is the salt of life; a higher taste
It gives to pleasure, and then makes it last.

Buckingham.—Ode on Love, Verse 5.

O death, all eloquent! you only prove
What dust we doat on, when ’tis man we love.

Pope.—Eloise to Abelard, Line 355.

LOVE.—Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 1. (Olivia to Viola.)

All hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 1. (Claudio alone.)

Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing;
For all of theirs upon that die is thrown,
And if ’tis lost, life hath no more to bring
To them but mockeries of the past alone,
And their revenge is as the tiger’s spring,
Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza 199.

Oh love! what is it in this world of ours
Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah! why
With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers,
And made thy best interpreter a sigh?
As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers,
And place them on their breast—but place to die;
Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish
Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 2.

True he it said, whatever man it said,
That love with gall and honey doth abound;
But if the one be with the other weighed,
For every dram of honey therein found
A pound of gall doth over it redound.

Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book IV. Canto X.; and Eclogue III. March.

Love! who lightest on wealth, who makest thy couch in the soft cheeks of the youthful damsel, and roamest beyond the sea, and ’mid the rural cots, thee shall neither any of the immortals escape, nor men the creatures of a day.

Buckley’s Sophocles, Antigone, Page 188.

Stony limits cannot hold love out;
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2. (Romeo to Juliet.)

LOVE.—In peace, love tunes the shepherd’s reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior’s steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Scott.—Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto III. Verse 2.

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence: man may range
The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart;
Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange
Pride, fame, ambition, to