love-cause

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicit, in a love-cause.

As You Like It 2004

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

Act IV. Scene I. As You Like It 1914

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicit, in a love-cause.

As You Like It 1599

But I came to an experience now of my own; unglorified by William, so strange that I cannot explain it unless there is what may be called a reversion to type in spirit, like this: that a person may be absolutely dominated for years by certain influences and not only feel no antagonism to them, but actually yield with devotion and inconceivable sacrifices, yet, when the influence is removed and there is no longer the love-cause for faithfulness the illusion not only passes, but the person finds himself of his original mind and spirit, emancipated, gone back to himself, what he really was in the beginning before the domination began.

A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902