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The literature of kissing : $b gleaned from history, poetry, fiction, and anecdote

Name: The literature of kissing : $b gleaned from history, poetry, fiction, and anecdote
Author: Bombaugh, Charles C. (Charles Carroll)

Bombaugh, Charles C. (Charles Carroll)

Kissing

Never saw I
  Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth.

                               _Winter’s Tale_, v. 1.

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  _Leontes._                  You are married?

  _Florizel._ We are not, sir, nor are we like to be;
  The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first.

                               _Winter’s Tale_, v. 1.

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  _Perdita._          Do not say ’tis superstition that
  I kneel, and then implore her blessing. Lady,
  Dear queen, that ended when I but began;
  Give me that hand of yours to kiss.

  _Paulina._                      Oh, patience;
  The statue is but newly fixed, the color’s
  Not dry.[19]

  ...

  _Leontes._ There is an air comes from her. What fine chisel
  Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me,
  For I will kiss her.

  _Paulina._        Good my lord, forbear:
  The ruddiness upon her lip is wet;
  You’ll mar it if you kiss it; stain your own
  With oily painting.

                                        _Winter’s Tale_, v. 3.

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  Is it night’s predominance, or the day’s shame,
  That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
  When living light should kiss it?

                                _Macbeth_, ii. 4.

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  _Macbeth._              I’ll not yield
  To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,
  And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.

                                 _Macbeth_, v. 7.

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  Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,
  As seal to this indenture of my love.

                      _King John_, ii. 1.

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                    Fortune shall cull forth
  Out of one side her happy minion;
  To whom in favor she shall give the day,
  And kiss him with a glorious victory.

                          _King John_, ii. 2.

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  Nor let my kingdom’s rivers take their course
  Through my burned bosom; nor entreat the north
  To make his bleak winds kiss my parchèd lips,
  And comfort me with cold.

                               _King John_, v. 6.

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(_Richard to Bolingbroke, kneeling._)

  Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee,
  To make the base earth proud with kissing it.

                         _Richard II._, iii. 3.

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(_Richard to the Queen._)

  Let me unkiss the oath ’twixt thee and me;
  And yet not so, for with a kiss ’twas made.[20]
  ...
  Come, come, in wooing sorrow let’s be brief,
  Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief.
  One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part:
  Thus give I mine, and thus I take thy heart.    [_They kiss._

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