“So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.”
Bible
“You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!”
William Shakespeare
“If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid”
Proverb
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song”
Charles Kingsley
“Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
William Blake
“He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her”
Nathaniel Smith
