Gift. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Gift


A present is provided for my love; for I have myself marked the place where the airy wood-pigeons have built. Davidson’s Virgil, by Buckley, Part IX.	1
I indeed will give presently to the maiden a ringdove, having taken it from the juniper—for there it broods. Banks.—Theocritus, Idyll V. Page 31.	2
I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say ’twas a barbarous deed. For he ne’er could be true, she averr’d, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I lov’d her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Shenstone.—Ballad on Hope, Verse 5.	3
He ne’er consider’d it as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than ’twas worth. Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 489.	4