Living
A Scholar Was About to Marry
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
A scholar was about to marry,
His friend said, " Ere thou dost, be wary.
So wise art thou that I foresee
A wife will make a fool of thee.
Foolishest of all fools are those
Wise men led daily by the nose.
It hardly seems a woman's while
The fond hale-witted to beguile:
And yet I must confess, my friend,
Sometimes they do so condescend."
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