And Marriage also may exist without;
But Love sans banns is both a sin and shame,
And ought to go by quite another name.
XVI.
Now if the "Court," and "Camp," and "Grove," be not
Recruited all with constant married men,
Who never coveted their neighbour's lot,
I say that line's a lapsus of the pen;—
Strange too in my buon camerado Scott,
So celebrated for his morals, when