Youth, he would say, and he desired his wife 380

To have the comforts of an easy life.

She loved a carriage, loved a decent seat

To which they might at certain times retreat;

Servants indeed were sorrows—yet a few

They still must add, and do as others do;

She too would some attendant damsel need,

To hear, to speak, to travel, or to read.”

In short, the man his remedies assign’d

For his foreknown diseases in the mind:—