LXIV.

"Ye gods, I grow a talker!"[637] Let us prate. The next of perils, though I place it _stern_est, Is when, without regard to Church or State, A wife makes or takes love in upright earnest. Abroad, such things decide few women's fate-- (Such, early Traveller! is the truth thou learnest)-- But in old England, when a young bride errs, Poor thing! Eve's was a trifling case to hers.