"Ingenerate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... should grace a dame. Then took he the disparent silks, and tied The lovers by the waists, and side by side, In token that hereafter they must bind In one self-sacred knot each other's mind. Before them on an altar he presented Both fire and water, which was first invented, Since to ingenerate every human creature And every other birth produc'd by Nature, Moisture and heat must mix; so man and wife For human race must join in nuptial life. Then one of Juno's birds, the painted jay, He sacrific'd, and took the gall away; All which he did behind the altar ...
— Hero and Leander and Other Poems • Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman |
