Crossword-Solution: VALENTINES 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

One of his valentines reads as follows:-- “Wilt thou be mine? dear Love, reply-- Sweetly consent or else deny.

But I am also this year my wife's valentine; and it will cost me five pounds; but that I must have laid out if we had not been valentines.

Alas, that our Mirabels, our Valentines, even our Brummels, should have left their mantles upon nothing more amusing! Nor are the fast men less constrained.

The choice of Valentines was a standing challenge, and the courtiers pelted each other with humorous and sentimental verses as in a literary carnival.

Within lie snoods that bound her hair, Slippers that have danced their last, Faded flowers laid by with care, Fans whose airy toils are past, Gay valentines, all ardent flames, Trifles that have borne their part In girlish hopes and fears and shames, The record of a maiden heart Now learning fairer, truer spells, Hearing, like a blithe refrain, The silver sound of bridal bells In the falling summer rain.