Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Frou minne, ir habt ein êre,
und wênc decheine mêre.
frou liebe iu gît geselleschaft:
anders wær vil dürkel iwer kraft.
Bk. 6, st. 291, line 15; p. 152.
Parzival
Non, j'aurai des maîtresses.
William M. White Emmanuel Swedenborg ([1856] 1867) vol. 2, p. 308.
Tearfully answering his wife, Queen Caroline, who as she lay dying had urged him to marry again.
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Frou minne, ir habt ein êre,
und wênc decheine mêre.
frou liebe iu gît geselleschaft:
anders wær vil dürkel iwer kraft.
Bk. 6, st. 291, line 15; p. 152.
Parzival
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Wealth
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) Prussian Field Marshal
Waldersee c. 1887 http://www.tracesofevil.com/1999/10/revision-notes-about-bismarck.html
“A poet’s Mistress is a hallowed thing.”
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885) British politician and poet
Tempe.
“Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Variant: Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.
“Such mistress, such Nan,
Such master, such man.”
Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) English poet
"April's Abstract". Comment: M. Cimber of the Bibliothèque Royale ascribes this proverb to Chevalier Bayard: “Tel maître, tel valet.”
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, Antitheta (1623)