This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.
A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. . . Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones. . . For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these, and yet
Be thought an idler by the noisy set.