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Thread #133094   Message #3016448
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Oct-10 - 12:58 AM
Thread Name: To 'marry out of hand'
Subject: RE: To 'marry out of hand'
Report of the Queen's Speedy Marriage.
There was spread now a Report, and that even in the Court, That the Queen would marry out of Hand: and the Honourable Person she would match herself with, was Charles Brother to the Emperor Maximilian.
--from "Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion" by John Strype, 1725.


Sganarel. What d'ye say to't?
Geronimo. A good Match! marry out of Hand.*
Sganarel. Am I not right, in having made this Choice?
Geronimo. Certainly. Ah! how happily you'll be marry'd! Make haste to be so.
--from "The Forc'd Marriage" by Moliere, 1748.

* The original French was "Mariez-vous promtement."