MEANING REVERSED
The phrase, "There is no lovo lost between, them,," is an everyday one, yet it once bore a meaning precisely the opposite of its present one. In the old chapbook rhyme upon "Tho Most Lamentable and. Deplorable History of the Two Children in the Wood," etc., published in 1700, the death of the children's parents is. described in these lines:—
"His wife- by him as sick did lye, and both, possessed ono grave, No love between these two was loiit, each was to other kind; In lovo they liv'd, in love i they dy'd, and left two babes behind."
Surely this old meaning of the words is the better one. Tho original stock of love with which every marriage should begin is taken for granted. Thennone was "lost." There was no leakage on either side.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 24
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137MEANING REVERSED Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 24
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