The civil way you’ve got;

For me you’re something too polite—

Justine, you love me not!

I know, Justine, you never scold

At aught that I may do:

If I am passionate or cold,

’Tis all the same to you.

“A charming temper,” say the men,

“To smooth a husband’s lot”:

I wish ’twere ruffled now and then—