"Mine owne deare loue, I no sooner conceiued an hope, that I should bee made a mother by thee, but with it entred the consideration of a mothers duty, and shortly after followed the apprehension of danger that might preuent mee from executing that care I so exceedingly desired, I meane in religious training our Childe.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various
At Westminster, that costly work of yours, Mine own dear lord, I now shall never see."
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook
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