Not handled too roughly, nor play’d on too much!
The sparrow and linnet will feed from your hand,
Grow tame by your kindness, and come at command:
Exert with your husband the same happy skill,
For hearts, like your birds, may be tamed to your will.
Be gay and good-humour’d, complying and kind,
Turn the chief of your care from your face to your mind;
’Tis thus that a wife may her conquests improve,
And Hymen shall rivet the fetters of love.