Recompense

Roger repaired to London again, and came to the maid that lent him the money to pay his master withal, and said unto her, "Elizabeth, here is thy money I borrowed of thee; and for the friendship, good will, and the good counsel I have received at thy hands, to recompense thee I am not able, otherwise than to make thee my wife." And soon after they were married, which was in the first year of Queen Mary.

—Foxe's Book of Martyrs, The Story of Roger Holland.

Mutual Necrophilia

Easy money
Lying on a bed
Just as well they never see
The hate that's in your head
Don't they know they're making love
To one already dead!

—Les Misérables, Lovely Ladies


He does not know that the dead are there;
That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

—Proverbs 9:18