Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

!!!

For this was on seynt Volantynys day

Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.

["For this was Saint Valentine's Day, 
when every bird cometh there to choose his mate"]

Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules (1382)

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,

All in the morning betime, 

And I a maid at your window, 

To be your Valentine. 

Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, 

And dupp'd the chamber-door; 

Let in the maid, that out a maid 

Never departed more.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5
 

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, 

thou art every day my Valentine!

Thomas Hood