“Timely blossom, Infant fair,
Fondling of a happy pair.”
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) Anglo-Irish poet and politician
To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in Her Mother’s Arms (1724)
“Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave,
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserves the fair.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 12–15.
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