Methinks Love's very title says enough:
How should "the tender passion" e'er be tough?
XCV.
Alas! by all experience, seldom yet
(I merely quote what I have heard from many)
Had lovers not some reason to regret
The passion which made Solomon a zany.[NE]
I've also seen some wives (not to forget
The marriage state, the best or worst of any)
Who were the very paragons of wives,