Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Consent

My consent goes not that way.
Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Scene 2. (Page to Hostess.)

Let him light his pipe with his consent if he pleases. Wilful against Wise for a wager.
Colley Cibber.—The Non-Juror, Act I. Scene 1.

A little still she strove and much repented,
And whispering “I will ne’er consent”—consented.
Byron.—Don Juan, Canto I. Verse 117.

She hugg’d th’ offender, and forgave th’ offence.
Dryden.—Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 367.