["After using every endeavour to arouse him to action,
she quits the barren couch."—Martial, vii. 58.]
'Tis not enough that a man's will be good; weakness and insufficiency lawfully break a marriage,
"Et quaerendum aliunde foret nervosius illud,
Quod posset zonam solvere virgineam:"
["And seeks a more vigorous lover to undo her virgin zone."
—Catullus, lxvii. 27.]
why not? and according to her own standard, an amorous intelligence, more licentious and active,
"Si blando nequeat superesse labori."
["If his strength be unequal to the pleasant task."
—Virgil, Georg., iii. 127.]
But is it not great impudence to offer our imperfections and imbecilities, where we desire to please and leave a good opinion and esteem of ourselves? For the little that I am able to do now:
"Ad unum
Mollis opus."
["Fit but for once."—Horace, Epod., xii. 15.]