Happy, happy, happy, pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.

-Dryden,John
  Alexander's Feast, l.4^7.

Take a pair of sparkling eyes.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Marco's song, The Gondoliers, act 2.

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.366^9.

: †we can be but What we are. : A pair of credulous fools.

-Shirley,James
  RIDERVENTURE1634  Hyde Park, act1, sc.1.