Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Wedlock
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared beenTo public feasts, where meet the public rout.Where they that are without would fain go in,And they that are within would fain go out.
—Sir John Davies
Wedlock’s like wine,—not properly judged of till the second glass.
—Douglas Jerrold
Honest wedlock,Is like a banqueting house built in a garden,On which the spring’s chaste flowers take delightTo cast their modest odours.
—Thomas Middleton