Chapter 1244 of 1964 · 62 words · ~1 min read

LXX.

And Catherine (we must say thus much for Catherine), Though bold and bloody, was the kind of thing Whose temporary passion was quite flattering, Because each lover looked a sort of King, Made up upon an amatory pattern, A royal husband in all save the _ring_--[jn] Which, (being the damnedest part of matrimony,) Seemed taking out the sting to leave the honey: