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,