Unheedful vows may needfully be broken.

2017 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 6.

It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.

2018 BYRON: _Parisina,_ St. 1.

==W.==

=Wagers.=

Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers.

2019 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., Line 297.

=Walks.=

A pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between.

2020 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 1106.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see!

2021 WATTS: _Divine Songs,_ Song iv.

=War.=

O war, thou son of hell, Whom angry heav'ns do make their minister, Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part Hot coals of vengeance!--Let no soldier fly; He that is truly delicate to war Hath no self-love: nor he that loves himself.

2022 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.

2023 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

2024 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 186.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife!"

2025 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 86.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous, Sweet is the smell of powder.

2026 LONGFELLOW: _Courtship of Miles Standish,_ Pt. iv., Line 135.

=Warning.=

Men that stumble at the threshold, Are well foretold that danger lurks within.

2027 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iv., Sc. 7.

=Warrior.=

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.

2028 CHARLES WOLFE: _Burial of Sir John Moore._

=Washington.=

Washington's a watchword such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.

2029 BYRON: _Age of Bronze,_ St. 5.

=Water.=

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

2030 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth: If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth, Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, You'd wish yourself where truth is--in a well.

2031 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto ii., St. 84.

=Wave.=

So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

2032 MRS. BARBAULD: _Death of the Virtuous._

A life on the ocean wave!

A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

2033 EPES SARGENT: _Life On the Ocean Wave._

=Way.=

Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide, pathless way.

2034 MILTON: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 65.

=Weakness.=

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?

All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

2035 MILTON: _Sam. Agonistes,_ Line 831.

=Wealth.=

If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

2036 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.