Relationships and Family

This word “love,” which greybeards call divine.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

O tiger’s heart wrapp’d in a woman’s hide!

She’s beautiful and therefore to be woo’d, She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 4

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies. 2

Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, 1 Woods or steepy mountain yields.

Servant in love and lord in marriage.

For love is blynd. 13

Love is noght oold as whan that it is newe.

O yonge, fresshe folkes, he or she, In which that love up groweth with youre age, Repeyreth hom fro worldly vanyte.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.

Hard is the herte that loveth nought In May.

Venus clerk, Ovide, That hath ysowen wonder wide The grete god of Loves name.

Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady’s admirable gifts… Beyond the range of human intellect.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild. Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus’s child.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

A woman’s vows I write upon the wave.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.