Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Olivia says this to Cesario, who is Viola in disguise, just after confessing that she has fallen in love with the messenger her suitor sent. The line is comic because the love is unreturned, and because Cesario is not the man Olivia thinks.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once.
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings / That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, / Awake for ever in a sweet unrest.
Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove.
Had we never lov’d sae kindly, / Had we never lov’d sae blindly, / Never met—or never parted, / We had ne’er been broken-hearted.