No one on earth can less such things regard,
But when one’s partner doesn’t know a card -
I scorn suspicion, ma’am, but while you stand
Behind that lady, pray keep down your hand.”
“Good heav’n, revoke: remember, if the set
Be lost, in honour you should pay the debt.”
“There, there’s your money; but, while I have life,
I’ll never more sit down with man and wife;
They snap and snarl indeed, but in the heat
Of all their spleen, their understandings meet;