Saul and Jonathan. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

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

Saul and Jonathan


Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. 2 Samuel, Chap. i. Ver. 23.	1
Happier for me, that all our hours assign’d Together we had lived; e’en not in death disjoin’d! Dryden.—Ceyx and Alcyone.	2
That death itself could not their friendship sever, But as they lived in love, they died together. Cowley.—The Song, Stanza 9. Spenser.—Astrophel, Line 179.	3
Not doom’d in lingering woe to waste their breath, One moment snatch’d them from the power of death: They lived united, and united died; Happy the friends whom death cannot divide. Beattie.—Epitaph on Two Young Men.	4
’Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their death had not divided been. Campbell.—Gertrude of Wyoming, Part III. Verse 33.	5