If ye love them that love you, what thank have ye therefore? for sinners also love their lovers.—Luke vi. 32. Coverdale.
For Hiram was ever a lover of David.—1 Kin. v. 1. (A.V.)
This Posthumus,
Most like a noble lord in love, and one
That had a royal lover, took his hint.
Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act v. sc. 5.
If I freely may discover
What would please me in a lover,
I would have her fair and witty,
Savouring more of court than city.