“The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.”
To a Lady with a Present of Flowers.
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English poet and man of letters 1685–1740Related quotes
“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”
The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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
Source: Angel Chooi cited in " The rise of maid cafés in Malaysia and why it’s actually kinda cool https://eksentrika.com/maid-cafe-malaysia-king-angel/" on Eksentrika.
“The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 625.
“Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
Verse.
“Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.”
Interdum animus dominarum ex ancillarum habitu iudicatur.
Letter 54
Letters
“There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid”
The Long Trail http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/longtrail.html, Stanza 5.
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Context: There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;
But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea
In the heel of the North-East Trade.