CELIBACY. 
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BACHELOR’S BUTTON. 
Lychnis Dicecia. 
Language — CELIBACY. 
Alone, alone, all, all alone! 
Alone on a wide, Avide sea! 
A bachelor 
May thrive by observation on a little; 
A single life’s no burden ; but to draAV 
In yokes is chargeable, and will require 
A double maintenance. 
John Fond. 
What! I love ! I sue ! I seek a wife ! 
A woman that is like a German clock, 
Still a-repairing; ever out of frame, 
And never going aright, being a Avatch, 
But being watched that it may still go right. 
Sfiaxsfeare. 
Hoav uneasy is his life 
Who is troubled Avith a wife ! 
Be she ne’er so fair or comely, 
Be she foul or be she homely, 
Be she blithe or melancholy, 
Have she wit or have she folly, 
Be she prudent, be she squandering, 
Be she staid or be she wandering, 
Yet uneasy is his life 
Who is married to a wife. 
Cotton. 
