Laid

Famous quotes containing the word laid:

“I’d rather I were dead and gone,
And my body laid in grave,
Ere a rusty stock o coal-black smith
My maidenhead should have.”
—Unknown. The Twa Magicians (l. 17–20)

“And when thy heart is laid to rest
Beneath the church-yard stone
I shall have time enough to mourn
And thou to be alone.””
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

“Not Solomon, for all his wit,
Nor Samson, though he were so strong,
No king nor person ever yet
Could ‘scape, but death laid him along:”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)