As I wander’d about ’tother day full of thought,
With the subject of love I was very much caught;
Whether best to live single, or best with a wife,
I assure you within me was terrible strife.
Thinks I to myself, one is stupid alone,
And I’m sure I have read, “two is better than one;”
So a wife I have fixed on, that wife shall be you,
If it please you, and I will be constant and true.
LADY’S ANSWER.
“To be constant and true”—your promise is fair,