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LOVE me, love my dog
Cf. ST. BERNARD
Sermon: In Festo Sancti Michaelis
iii.
qui me amat
,
amat et canem meum
, who loves me, also loves my dog; early 14th-cent. Fr.
et ce dit le sage qui mayme il ayme mon chien
, and so says the sage, who loves me loves my dog.
a
1500
in
Archiv
(1893) XC. 81
He that lovyeth me lovyeth my hound.
1546
Dialogue of Proverbs
II. ix. K4
V
Ye haue bene so veraie [veritable] a hog, To my frends. What man, loue me, loue my dog.
1692
Fables of Aesop
cvi. Love Me, Love my Dog …
For there are certain Decencies of Respect due to the Servant for the Master's sake.
1826
Elia's Last Essays
(1833) 262
That you must love me
,
and love my dog
. .. We could never yet form a friendship without the intervention of some third anomaly the understood dog in the proverb.
1975
Snow Tiger
xvi.
I'll have to bring Victor …Love me—love my dog.
associates
;
love
LOVE will find a way
a
1607
Gentle Craft
(1648) I. XV.
Thus love you see can finde a way, To make both Men and Maids obey.
1661
‘T.B.’ (
title
)
Love will finde out the way.
1765
in
Reliques
III. III. 236
Over the mountains, And over the waves; Love will find out the way.
1962
Killed by Scandal
ix.
But he's so fond of June that I'm sure it's going to be all right. Love will find a way.
1975
Listener
16 Oct. 504
The red-plush curtain fell on a reprise of ‘Love will find a way.’
love

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