To risk the bread-and-cheese and kisses,
Or else her calculating mind
Preferred "Her Ladyship" to "Mrs."
So I'm unmarried to this day,
And live without the great felicity
Which, as Tom used of old to say,
Can't fail to wait on domesticity.
That joy is his alone, not mine,
Misogynist he liked to call himself,
Whilst I thought every girl divine—