Possible Clues:

• Court cut short deal, for example
• Court; importune
• You'd sound a right owl, to wit, to go courting like this
• How to get wife with love and ring?
• A suitor may pitch it
• Court with flowers
• Court, seek to marry
• Would an owl have the wit to do this, by the sound of it?
• Act the suitor
• Seek to win over