Careful Words

linked (adj.)

And ever against eating cares

Lap me in soft Lydian airs,

Married to immortal verse,

Such as the meeting soul may pierce,

In notes with many a winding bout

Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

John Milton (1608-1674): L'Allegro. Line 135.

He left a corsair's name to other times,

Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Corsair. Canto iii. Stanza 24.