Hints that work “might,” or business “may”
Detain—but there, no more she’ll say?
Her mother!
Who breaks our peace, destroys our bliss,
Coils on our hearth with frequent hiss—
Connubial rapture’s Nemesis?
Her mother!
Enough! But has it not a flaw,
That Act which says I may not draw
Two wives, and yet makes mine in law,