How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.