When we their charge so manage, that ’tis found
To save the credit it was meant to wound. 190
Those who by reasons their acquittal seek,
Make the whole sex contemptible and weak;
This, too, observe—that men of sense in love
Dupes more complete than fools and blockheads prove;
For all that knowledge lent them as a guide,
Goes off entirely to the lady’s side;
Whereas the blockhead rather sees the more,
And gains perception that he lack’d before.