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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Vows |
| Vow me no vows. Beaumont and Fletcher—Wit without Money. Act IV. Sc. 4. | 1 |
| Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Ecclesiastes. V. 5. | 2 |
| Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow? Hogg—The Broken Heart. | 3 |
| Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace, That ’tis a kind of Heaven to be deluded by him. Nathaniel Lee—Rival Queens. Act I. Sc. 1. | 4 |
| Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 96. | 5 |
| Let us embrace, and from this very moment Vow an eternal misery together. Thomas Otway—The Orphan. Act IV. Sc. 1. | 6 |
| Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. (“Lends” in quarto, “gives” in folio.) | 7 |
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