To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
   Trio, The Mikado, act1.

Joy, I did lock thee up; but some bad man Hath let thee out again.

-Herbert, George
'The Bunch of Grapes', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

Lock the door, Lariston, lion of Liddesdale; Lock the door, Lariston, Lowther comes on; The Armstrongs are flying, The widows are crying, The Castletown's burning, and Oliver's gone!

-Hogg,James
c.1810  'Lock the Door, Lariston', stanza1.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Up stairs and doun stairs in his nicht-gown, Tirling at the window, crying at the lock, 'Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?'

-Miller,William
  'Willie Winkie', stanza1.

   Thosewhotalk most abouttheblessings of marriageand the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the claim were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would flyasunder.Youcan't havetheargument both ways.Ifthe prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

-Shaw, George Bernard
  DonJuan to AnnWhitefield. Man and Superman, act 3.

Everything presses onöwhilst thou art twisting that lock,ösee! It grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and everyabsence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Tristram toJenny.Tristram Shandy, bk.9, ch.8.