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Constancy, Conjugal: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

To beggarly divorcement, -love him dearly, Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.— 0. iv. 2

He counsels a divorce: a loss of her, That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years About his neck, yet never lost her lustre; Of her, that loves him with that excellence That angels love good men with; even of her, That when the greatest stroke of fortune falls, Will bless the king.— H. VIII. ii. 2.

Sir, call to mind, That I have been your wife in this obedience, Upward of twenty years, and have been bless'd With many children by you. If, in the course And process of this time, you can report, And prove it too, against mine honour aught, My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty, Against your sacred person, in God's name, Turn me away; and let the foul'st contempt Shut door upon me, and so give me up To the sharpest kind of justice.— H. VIII. ii. ii.

O bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.— R. J. iv. 1