Shakespeare, 27th December

A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.

Never give her o'er;

For scorn at first makes after-love the more.

Take no repulse, whatever she does say;

For "get you gone," she does not mean "away!"

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,

If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

                           Two Gentleman of Verona, Act iii., Sc. I.