But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Yet since with sorrow here we live opprest, what life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools to dandle fools.
The rural parts are turned into a den of savage men.
And where's the city from all vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the three?
Domestic cares afflict the husband's bed, or pains his head.
Those that live single take it for a curse, or do things worse.
Some would have children; those that have them moan, or wish them gone.
What is it then to have or have no wife,