The matter to a woman? Just as well
Tell all the criers in the public squares!
’Tis hard to say which of them louder blares.”
“Married? He’s done for! Ah! I had misgiving.
And yet I only lately left him living.”
“Two states there are that we can always prove,—
If one’s in liquor, and if one’s in love.
Both words and looks these two conditions show;
By these if the denial’s false we know.”
Another epigrammatist was