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    Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen.
    'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals
    And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin
    (Friends of the party) who begin accusals,
    Such as--"Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen
    Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals
    To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray,
    Look yes least night, and yet say No to-day?"

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Blessed is the wooing
That is not long a-doing.

Blessed is the wooing
That is not long a-doing.

by Richard Eugene Burton Found in: Wooing Quotes,
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And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.

And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.

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She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say read more

She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
No more than on the thing they lean.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Wooing Quotes,
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'Tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart be sure is not of ice,
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'Tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart be sure is not of ice,
And one refusal no rebuff.

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So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love,
And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution
Told his read more

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love,
And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution
Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer.

by Colley Cibber Found in: Wooing Quotes,
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There is a tide in the affairs of women
Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.

There is a tide in the affairs of women
Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.

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There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
The way read more

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock;
the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man
with a maid.

by Bible Found in: General Sayings, Wooing Sayings,
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Better be courted and jilted
Than never be courted at all.

Better be courted and jilted
Than never be courted at all.

by Thomas Campbell Found in: Wooing Quotes,
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Duncan Gray cam here to woo,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
On blithe Yuletide when we were read more

Duncan Gray cam here to woo,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
Maggie coost her head fu' high,
Looked asklent and unco skeigh,
Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:
Ha, ha! the wooing o't!

by Robert Burns Found in: Wooing Quotes,
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