Ladies' Express.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 909, 15 January 1881, Page 2

Ladies' Express.

A BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY. ’s£;■ “•’■y •* To wed, or not to wed—that is the question; Whether ’tie wiser in a man to banish The tempting visions of domestic comfort, Or to lead some damsels of our time to the altar, And, by marriage, end them ? To wed ? to doubt No more ? and by that act to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand well-planned tricks r < Of enterprising mothers ! —-’tils a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To wed, to enrich The tradesman, and to feed bad servants ! To wed, perchance, a spendthrift ! —aye, there’s the rub ; , For to what sort of wife we may be mated When we have shuffled off our bachelorhood, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes celibacy of so much practice ; For who would bear the impatient thirst for bliss, The yearnings for some gentle confidante, The amatory frenzies of one’s loneliness, The loss of buttons, and large joints of meat, When he himself might Mis quietus make With a bare wedding ring ? Who would lodgings bear, To groan and sweat under extortionate landladies, But that the dread of helpless and expensive wives— Those prodigies of modern training—puzzled the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than hazard being thus ta’en in and done fori Thus women do make cowards of us all; And thus the hopeful heart of many a bachelot Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprisers of good will and spirit, With this regard from marriage, turn awayj And lose the name of husband.