Curs’d be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal to a tyrant wife!
Who has nowill but byher high permission,
Who has not sixpence butin her possession;
Who must to he, his dear friend’s secrets tell,
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.
Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I’d break her spirit orI’d break her heart;
I’d charm her with the magic of a switch,
I’d kiss her maids, and kick the perverse bitch.
