Famous quotes containing the words gross and/or estate:
“In the gross and scope of mine opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Betrothal,” (1662)