In a word, young sir, have you the patience of Job?
If you can lay your hand upon your heart and answer "Yes," take your licence and marry—not else.
To Policemen about to Marry.—When you are about to marry, visit as many cooks as you can, so as to give you the widest possible area for your choice. Avoid housemaids, whose occupation does not admit of the accumulation of much dust to come down with; and remember that there is nothing like kitchen-stuff for greasing the wheel of fortune. When married, a policeman will be justified in living above his station—if he can get a room there for nothing.
LINES TO MY LADY-LOVE
(By a Commonplace Person)
To thee, were I a humble bee,
I'd hourly wing my honeyed flight;