“Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.”
Interdum animus dominarum ex ancillarum habitu iudicatur.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 54
Letters
“The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 625.
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“They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.”
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
"Prescience" <!-- p. 18 -->
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth,
But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below;
They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row.They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth;
They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.</p
“The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
To a Lady with a Present of Flowers.
“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”
Walter Scott book The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Honoré de Balzac book Pierrette
Aucun homme ne s'arrache aux douceurs du sommeil matinal pour écouter un troubadour en veste, une fille seule se réveille à un chant d'amour.
Source: Pierrette (1840), Ch. I: The Lorrains.
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Nītiśataka 2
Variant translation from K.M. Joglekar:
That woman about whom I constantly meditate has no affection for me; she, however, yearns after another who is attached to someone else; while a certain woman pines away for me. Fie on her, on him, on the God of Love, on that woman, and on myself.
Śatakatraya
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One