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bachelor (n.)

bachelor (v.)

  Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.