I aim, in all her freaks, my wife to please;
I wage domestic war, in hopes of ease.
I vain the hopes! and my fond bosom bleeds,
To feel how soon to peace mad strife succeeds:
To find, with servants jarring, or my wife,
The worst of lawsuits is a married life.
Johannes Audœmus
TO A FRIEND IN DISTRESS
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend;
For when at worst, they say, things always mend.