Or body. Better to be weak in brain!

She then, perchance, might serve a husband’s thought,

And wisdom’s voice might rule the family!

But were her moods too strong to serve his thought,

She might serve that in him which could not think.—

To wed she-brains, a man should seek to be

Commended as a fool!

XL.

And then I stopp’d:—

Here raved I, jealous of this fool alone,