Underwritten by a Cambridge Schollar.
Viator siste! ecce miraculum!
Vir & Uxor, hic non litigant.
Which in English may stand thus.
Behold a Bed, where, without Strife,
There rests a Man, and eke his Wife.
Tom of Bedlam’s Sentiments on Marriage.
One ask’d a Madman, if a Wife he had,
A Wife! quoth he.——No!——I’m not quite so mad.