Note 29 — THE FITNESS OF WOMEN FOR THE MINISTRY OF RELIGION.
Reading edition
I know not on what authority the familiar jovial couplet has been attributed to the great Reformer:—
“Wer liebt nicht Wein, Weib, und Gesang Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang.”
The ascetic spirit had very far departed, at all events, from the author who composed it.