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  • To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.

  • I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?

    -John Donne
    c.1595^1605  'The Good Morrow', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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