The favourite; but what's favour amongst four?

Polygamy may well be held in dread,

Not only as a sin, but as a bore:

Most wise men with one moderate woman wed,[GG]

Will scarcely find philosophy for more;

And all (except Mahometans) forbear

To make the nuptial couch a "Bed of Ware."[334]

XIII.

His Highness, the sublimest of mankind,—[GH]

So styled according to the usual forms