wedlock quotes

Consented together in holy wedlock.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Minister's Declaration.

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts where meet a public rout, Where they that are without would fain go in And they that are within would fain go out.

- SirJohn Davies
  'A Contention Betwixt a Wife, a Widow, and a Maid for Precedence', l.193^6.