Bid

Famous quotes containing the word bid:

“Go, bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Love, my fate got luckily,
Teaches with no telling
That the phoenix’ bid for heaven and the desire after
Death in the carved nunnery
Both shall fail if I bow not to your blessing....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Love must not be, but take a body too,
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love aske, and now
That it assume thy body, I allow,
And fixe it selfe in thy lip, eye, and brow.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)