—Josiah Allen’s Wife.
March Twentieth
Wooers and widows are never poor.
—Ralph Roister Doister (1566).
March Twenty-first
Do, but dally not: that’s the widow’s phrase.
—Barry.
March Twenty-second
“You know what counsel said, Sammy, as defended the gen’lem’n as beat his wife, with the poker, venever he got jolly: ‘And arter all, my Lord,’ says he, ‘it’s a amiable weakness.’ So I says respectin’ widders.”
—Dickens.