| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Nun |
| | | | Love, to her ear, was but a name, |
| Combind with vanity and shame; |
| Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all |
| Bounded within the cloister wall. |
Scott. | 1 |
| | Know of your youth, examine well your blood, |
| Whether, if you yield not to your fathers choice, |
| You can endure the livery of a nun; |
| For aye to be in shady cloister mewed; |
| To live a barren sister all your life, |
| Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. |
| Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, |
| To undergo such maiden pilgrimage. |
Shakespeare. | 2 | | |
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