Quote#Death
Having my law the seventh time disobey'd
Quote byCoventry Patmore · 1823–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Unknown Eros (1877), "The Toys", p. 50..
English (original)
Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, —His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
— Coventry Patmore
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