Virtue will for ever stay."
Or,—
"The best affections of my heart are thine,
If you to my petition will incline."
Or,—
"What is beauty but a bait,
Oft repented when too late?"
Now, in place of these silly ideas, we suggest the following, which will have the merit of inducing thinking, and, by their matter-of-fact truth, do away with a great deal of the false atmosphere with which society is invested:—
When the master and mistress smile through the night,
Oh, do not believe that their bosoms are light;