Chapter 2 of 21 · 58 words · ~1 min read

VI.

“There’s something of antipathy, as ’twere, Between their present and their future state; A kind of flattery that’s hardly fair Is used until the truth arrives too late-- Yet what can people do, except despair? The same things change their names at such a rate; For instance--passion in a lover’s glorious, But in a husband is pronounced uxorious.