Sir Philip Sidney (1590).
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. ‘My deare, my deare, my better half, I find that I must now leave thee.’
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Bed of Roses
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. ‘Come live with me and be my love….And I will make thee beds of roses.’
‘She thinks I must always be at her beck and call.’ Earl of Worcester (1470).
The original meaning of beck:
Julius Caesars Commentaryes – ‘It should be ready at a beck.’ (A beck was a silent signal, like the nod of the head).
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Come What May
Shakespeare (1606) – Macbeth
‘Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.’
Derived from one of the worst prisons in England: the Clink Prison. The Clink Prison was the home of some of the most unthinkable tortures in Medieval times.