Careful Words

sweeten (v.)

  Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6.

Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy.

Robert Pollok (1799-1827): The Course of Time. Book i. Line 464.

  All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1.