from Mansfield Park, who cannot bear the thought that Fanny Price is going to marry someone else and may have discarded him because of his dalliance with another woman.
It's often said of women's choice
of men to share their life,
“The dowry must include a Royce
or wedlock ends in strife.”
But that belief's not wholly true:
some ladies love indeed.
Among these there are quite a few
whose noses never bleed.
And though I know not where Miss Price
belongs among that list,
I know you leave her cold as ice
–and that, sir, is the gist.
