I Know That’s A Secret, For It’s

Courtship Is To Marriage, As A Very Witty Prologue To A Very Dull Play.

I Came Up Stairs Into The World, For I Was Born In A Cellar.

No Mask Like Open Truth To Cover Lies, As To Go Naked Is The Best Disguise.

Marriage Is Honourable, As You Say; And If So, Wherefore Should Cuckoldom Be A Discredit, Being Deriv'd From So Honourable A Root?

There Is Nothing More Unbecoming A Man Of Quality Than To Laugh ... 'tis Such A Vulgar Expression Of The Passion!