The Betrothed is an 1825 novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is the first of two Tales of the Crusaders, the second being The Talisman.
“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”
The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”
The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”
The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The The Betrothed (1825), Volume I, Chapter XIII http://books.google.com/books?id=3w8OAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Too+much+rest+is+rust%22&pg=PA226#v=onepage
