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:—