Their feeling that you are not quite a man.
Still the thing has its place; and with sagacity,
Much might be done by one of your capacity.
A virtuous attachment formed judiciously
Would come, one sees, uncommonly propitiously:
Turn you but your affections the right way,
And what mayn’t happen none of us can say;
For in despite of devils and of mothers,
Your good young men make catches, too, like others.
Di. To herd with people that one owns no care for;