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[6185] Be it that some woman break chaste wedlock's laws,
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Nor talked of ties like that, or wedlock's sacred flame.
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902
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The sires of holy families, the true to wedlock's sacred vow;
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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She subdooes the reckless, subjoogates the rebellious, sobers the friv'lous, burns the ground from onder the indolent moccasins of that male she's roped up in holy wedlock's bonds, an 'p'ints the way to a higher, happier life.
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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Gifts for fair childbirth and for wedlock's crown:
The House of Atreus 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880
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"Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil."
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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"Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil."
Fugitive Pieces George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Since wedlock's foft bondage m. ade JefTe m. y own!
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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220 The crime is veil'd in wedlock's specious name.
The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1736
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