Careful Words

married (n.)

married (v.)

married (adj.)

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

William Congreve (1670-1729): The Old Bachelor. Act v. Sc. 1.

  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.

Benedick the married man.

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

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.