Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Ballad upon a Wedding.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

Prithee, why so pale?

Will, when looking well can't move her,

Looking ill prevail?

Prithee, why so pale?

Song.

'T is expectation makes a blessing dear;

Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

Against Fruition.