A weak young man improvidently wed.
“Weak,” answer’d Richard; “but we do him wrong
To say that his affection was not strong.”
“That we may doubt,” said George; “in men so weak
You may in vain the strong affections seek;
They have strong appetites; a fool will eat
As long as food is to his palate sweet;
His rule is not what sober nature needs,
But what the palate covets as he feeds;
He has the passions, anger, envy, fear, 60