For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,

Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter,

Which flies on wings of light-heel'd Mercuries, Who do such things because they know no better;

And then, God knows what mischief may arise, When love links two young people in one fetter

Vile assignations and adulterous beds,

heads.

XVII.

Shakspeare described the sex in Desdemona,
As very fair, but yet suspect in fame;
And to this day, from Venice to Verona,
Such matters may be probably the same;
Except that since those times was never known

Because in Christian countries 'tis a rule To view their little slips with eyes more lenient; Whereas, if single ladies play the fool (Unless within the period intervenient

A well-timed wedding makes the scandal cool), I don't know how they ever can get over it, Except they manage never to discover it.

ference

sputter all.