If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
That when we live no more, We may live ever
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.