The Book-Collector / A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by William Carew Hazlitt

Ma femme est la qui pleure,

Ainsi qu'il m'est aduis,

Et me dict en cholere:

'Que fay ie seule au lict?

Est il seant de boire

Ainsi jusqu'à minuict?'"

Mr. Muirhead translates thus—

"When late the hour appears,

Returning to my home,

My wife is there in tears,