He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
Measure for Measure, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.
Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE.
His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
King Henry VIII., Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
There buds the promise of celestial worth.
The Last Day, Bk. III. DR. E. YOUNG.
Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens
That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.
King Henry VI., Pt. I. Act i. Sc. 6. SHAKESPEARE.
QUARREL.
O, shame to men! devil with devil damned
Firm concord holds; men only disagree
Of creatures rational.
Paradise Lost, Bk. II. MILTON.
O we fell out, I know not why,
And kissed again with tears.
The Princess. A. TENNYSON.
What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Rape of the Lock, Canto I. A. POPE.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear 't that the opposèd may beware of thee.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.