These prudes can make us credit what they please:

Few ponder long when they can dupe with ease.

THIS wife and husband, as our hist'ries say,

Each moment squabbled through the passing day;

Their disagreements often would arise

About a petticoat, cards, tables, pies,

Gowns, chairs, dice, summer-houses, in a word,

Things most ridiculous and quite absurd.

WELL might this spouse regret his Hell profound,

When he considered what he'd met on ground.