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On Marriage


That hackney'd judge of human life, 
The Preacher and the King, 
Observes: 'The man that gets a wife 
He gets a noble thing.'

But how capricious are mankind, 
Now loathing, now desirous! 
We married men, how oft we find 
The best of things will tire us!