HETÆRÆ.
How great the difference whether you pass the night
With a lawful wife or with a prostitute!
Bah! Where's the firmness of the flesh, the freshness
Of breath and of complexion? Oh, ye gods!
What appetite it gives one not to find
Everything waiting, but to be constrain'd
To struggle a little, and from tender hands
To bear soft blows and bullets; that, indeed,
Is really pleasure.