pair quotes

Happy, happy, happy, pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.

-John Dryden
  Alexander's Feast, l.4^7.

Take a pair of sparkling eyes.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Marco's song, The Gondoliers, act 2.

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.366^9.

: †we can be but What we are. : A pair of credulous fools.

-James Shirley
  RIDERVENTURE1634  Hyde Park, act1, sc.1.