Which with rapture you snatched from the half willing miss,
Is sweeter by far than the legalized kisses
You give the same girl when you’ve made her a Mrs.
It might be well to memorize one or two proverbs on this subject: “To kiss a man’s wife, or wipe his knife, is but a thankless office.” “He that kisseth his wife in the market-place shall have enough to teach him.”
Finally, there is the stolen kiss. The bold lover says:
Kiss her gently, but be sly,
Kiss her when there’s no one by,
Steal your kiss, for then ’tis meetest,
Stolen kisses are the sweetest.
The more backward swain argues the matter to himself: