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WELCOME
[ Also see Farewell Greeting Guests Hand Home Hospitality Meeting ]

'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark
  Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;
    'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
      Our coming, and look brighter when we come.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
        Don Juan (canto I, st. 123)

He enter'd in his house--his home no more,
  For without hearts there is no home; and felt
    The solitude of passing his own door
      Without a welcome.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
        Don Juan (canto III, st. 52)

Come in the evening, or come in the morning,
  Come when you're looked for, or come without warning,
    Kisses and welcome you'll find here before you,
      And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you.
      - Thomas Osborne Davis, The Welcome

Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth.
      - John Dryden

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
      - Andre Gide

Welcome, my old friend,
  Welcome to a foreign fireside.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
        To an Old Danish Song-Book

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?
  Those who have gone before.
    Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
      They will not keep you standing at that door.
      - Christina Georgina Rossetti, Up Hill

Welcome as the flowers in May.
      - Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (ch. VIII)

Trust me, sweet,
  Out of silence yet I picked a welcome,
    And in the modesty of fearful duty
      I read as much as from the rattling tongue
        Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
      - William Shakespeare,
        A Midsummer Night's Dream
         (Theseus at V, i)

Bid that welcome
  Which comes to punish us, and we punish it,
    Seeming to bear it lightly.
      - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
         (Antony at IV, xiv)

I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear.
      - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
         (Balthazar at III, i)

O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish,
  A table-full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.
      - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
         (Antipholus of Ephesus at III, i)

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
      - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
         (Balthazar at III, i)

The welcome ever smiles,
  And farewell goes out sighing.
      - William Shakespeare,
        The History of Troilus and Cressida
         (Ulysses at III, iii)

Sir, you are very welcome to our house.
  It must appear in other ways than words;
    Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
      - William Shakespeare,
        The Merchant of Venice (Portia at V, i)   BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK  

His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,
  If this be he you oft have wished to hear from.
      - William Shakespeare,
        The Two Gentlemen of Verona
         (Silvia at II, iv)

I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged. not never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say welcome.
      - William Shakespeare,
        The Two Gentlemen of Verona
         (Launce at II, v)

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