“That’s half so sweet in life as love’s young dream,”
There’s nought, I think, for which one so much cares
As talking over other folks’ affairs.
And so we meet with those who sometimes say,
That men have too much work, too little play:
Others assert that men their duties shirk,
Have too much play, and do too little work.
What is the truth? Some men find life full sore,
Work fifteen hours of the twenty-four;
They say that work does nothing else but vex,