Volume 1 — TO MRS. HOUGHTON OF BOURMONT,
Reading edition
ON PRAISING HER HUSBAND TO DR. SWIFT
You always are making a god of your spouse; But this neither Reason nor Conscience allows; Perhaps you will say, 'tis in gratitude due, And you adore him, because he adores you. Your argument's weak, and so you will find; For you, by this rule, must adore all mankind.