XI + 

How soon he learnt to titillate + 

The heart of the inveterate flirt! + 

Desirous to annihilate + 

His own antagonists expert, + 

How bitterly he would malign, + 

With many a snare their pathway line! + 

But ye, O happy husbands, ye + 

With him were friends eternally: + 

The crafty spouse caressed him, who + 

By Faublas in his youth was schooled, + 

And the suspicious veteran old, + 

The pompous, swaggering cuckold too, + 

Who floats contentedly through life, + 

Proud of his dinners and his wife! + 