A woman’s case is not much to be vaunted;

A hardened bachelor is hard to mend.

Mephistopheles.

A few apostles such as you were wanted,

From evil ways their vagrant steps to bend.

Martha.

Speak plainly, sir, have you found nothing yet?

Are you quite disentangled from the net?

Mephistopheles.

A house and hearth, we have been often told,