Etymology

Quotations

• O Gertrude, Gertrude!

  When sorrows come, they come not single spies,

  But in battalions.

• 1850 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 103-108

  "We two," she said, "will seek the groves

  Where the lady Mary is,

  With her five handmaidens, whose names

  Are five sweet symphonies,

  Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen,

  Margaret and Rosalys.