Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only join'd when hearts agree. - George Granville

Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obey'd.

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he,
Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;
Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,
But lives at peace, within himself content;
In thought, or act, accountable to none
But to himself, and to the gods alone.

So many shapes have women for deceit,
That every man's a fool, when we think fit.