Both male and female, if the book don’t lie,

Himself the noblest trade knew well enough,

How to carve out an opportunity.

But come, why peak and pine you here?

I lead you to the chamber of your dear,

Not to the gallows.

Faust.

Ah! what were Heaven’s supremest blessedness

Within her arms, upon her breast, to me!

Must I not still be wrung with agony,