spousals

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Let dull Octavia   Survive, to mourn him dead: My nobler fate   Shall knit our spousals with a tie, too strong   For Roman laws to break.

From All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy by Dryden, John

Let dull Octavia Survive, to mourn him dead: My nobler fate Shall knit our spousals with a tie, too strong For Roman laws to break.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Conceive, Fred, what the fair young creature must have felt at the bare idea of such shocking spousals!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

This marks the Churl: when spousals crown    His selfish hope, he finds the grace, Which sweet love has for ev'n the clown,    Was not in the woman, but the chace.

From Angel in the House by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

I come with high spousals to grace thee,   "In me the great conqueror of conquerors see; "Enthroned in a hall fit for monarchs I'll place thee,   "And mine, thou'rt for ever, thou high-born Ladye!"

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael