But scarce had the honeymoon passed o’er their heads,

When one morning to Zantippe, Socrates said,

“I think for a man of my standing in life,

This house is too small as I now have a wife:

So without further delay Carpenter Cary

Shall be sent for to widen my house and my dairy.”

“Now, Socrates, dearest,” Zantippe replied,

“I hate to hear everything vulgarly my’d;

Now, whenever you speak of your chattles again,

Say our cowhouse, our barn-yard; our pig-pen.”