Or look on them with coolness or neglect?

No! I must ever of my house be head,

And, thus obey’d, I condescend to wed.”

Clubb heard the speech - “My friend is nice, said he;

A wife with less respect will do for me:

How is he certain such a prize to gain?

What he approves, a lass may learn to feign,

And so affect t’obey till she begins to reign;

A while complying, she may vary then,

And be as wives of more unwary men;