If not acceptable there was general mocking, and she was told to let the young people have their house (the wooing-house) to themselves.

Ay, that was in his wooing time to me:

compell'd to wear The wooing smile, as on thy aching breast Some wretch reclines, who feeling ne'er possess'd; Thy poor heart bursting with the stifled tear!

© 1Jun28; B791798. Christopher Morley (A); 10Aug55; R154459. Wooing song for Sir Toby.

"JohnnieJohnnieJohnnie Stoddard; the one woman out of all the world for me," he murmured, his deep voice dropping to a wooing cadence.

Forever may thy wooing cease!

He at once thought of the councillor's house, with that secluded back garden and summer-house, all so convenient for secrecy, and the envied Annie there, too, whom he might by soft wooings detach from the hated Menelaws, and make his own through the medium of the pity that is akin to love.

Then grew Johan full of joy, saying: 'So be it, dear my brother, but am I come not to thee within three days at sunset, then shalt know that my wooing hath not prospered.'

"The wooing kestrel," I said, "mutes his mating-note To please the harmony of this sweet silence.

Indeed, Peter, I must confess I want some of your wooing manners, or else I might have turned my fair bushtail to you instead of your father, and have given you the ill salutation this morning.

The Giant's Wooing Methinks all nature hath no cure for Love, Plaster or unguent, Nicias, saving one;

"Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.

He could not bring himself to a manly wooing point.

So give, messire, give and spare not, so may thy lady prove kind, thy wooing prosper and love strengthen thee.

Troth I came not With any wooing purpose; only to please My Uncle, and try thy witt; and that converted me.

The wooing ripples lightly dashed Around the cherished store, And circling eddies brightly flashed Above the yellow ore.

She heard neither the song of the wooing thrush, nor the cry of the startled blackbird, nor the evening hymn of the soaring lark.

The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour When the thick-moated sunbeam lay Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping towards his western bower.

This silent world with truth is rife, This wooing air is warm. Now fall the thin disguises, planned For men too weak to walk unblamed; Naked beside the sea I stand, Naked, and not ashamed.

The air was soft, and almost oppressively mild, for the bracing east wind was gone, and a tender wooing zephyr was fluttering among the crumbled leaves, and helping them to their expansion.

From that point to within two miles of Peronne, Yolanda's song was as joyous as that of a wooing bird.

Behold, in peace, all nations here unite, Their various pennons streaming to the sight: The red cross glows, the Danish crown appears, The half-moon rises, and the lion rears, But mark, bold-towering o'er the conscious wave, The starry banners of my country brave, Stream like a meteor to the wooing breeze, And float all-radiant o'er the sunny seas!

From lyres and lutes their softest wooings bring, As Ishtar bows before her lover king.