Careful Words

kindly (adv.)

kindly (adj.)

Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,

Frosty, but kindly.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.

  The kindly fruits of the earth.

Book Of Common Prayer: The Litany.

Had we never loved sae kindly,

Had we never loved sae blindly,

Never met or never parted,

We had ne'er been broken-hearted!

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Ae Fond Kiss.