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Kiss me, sweet, for who knoweth
What thing cometh after death!
•William Morris, “Love and Death” (1870).

“If thou didst but know as much as I know, thou wouldst fly in to me through the window,” said the Princess to the dove.
•Andrew Lang, ed., The Red Fairy Book (1890).

If you had been where I’d been
You’d have seen the fairy queen;
If you’d been where I’d been
You’d have been out.
•children’s rhyme, quoted in Iona & Peter Opie, Children’s Games in Street and Playground (1969)...