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"]
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