A. HOLT WHITE.

_"Marriage is such a Rabble Rout."_--In D'Israeli's _Curiosities of

Literature_, Moxon's edition, in 1 vol. p. 118., or ed. edited by his son,

vol. i. p. 363., under the head "A Literary Wife," are the lines--

"Marriage is such a rabble rout,

That those that are out, would fain get in;

And those that are in, would fain get out:"

quoted from Chaucer. I have heard these lines quoted as being from

_Hudibras_: as I cannot trace them in my editions of Chaucer of Butler,

perhaps some of your readers can tell me where I can find them?

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