Thy fatal shafts unerring move,

I bow before thine altar, Love!

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771): Roderick Random. Chap. xl.

Better is to bow then breake.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

Yee have many strings to your bowe.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,

Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay!

Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,

Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Let others hail the rising sun:

I bow to that whose course is run.

David Garrick (1716-1779): On the Death of Mr. Pelham.

Yee have many strings to your bowe.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.