Careful Words

buy (n.)

buy (v.)

You have too much respect upon the world:

They lose it that do buy it with much care.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

Buy my flowers,—oh buy, I pray!

The blind girl comes from afar.

Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873): Buy my Flowers.

  I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.