Body Lawfully Begotten

Famous quotes containing the words body, lawfully and/or begotten:

    Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    If any man can shew any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
    Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Exhortation,” (1662)

    My love is of a birth as rare
    As ‘tis for object strange and high:
    It was begotten by Despair
    Upon Impossibility.
    Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)