_"Marriage is such a rabble rout"_ (Vol. iii., p. 263.).--
"Marriage is such a rabble rout,
That those that are out would fain get in,
And those that are in would fain get out."
I do not think it is against the rules of "N. & Q." for any Querist to put
a _rider_ on any of his own Queries. In a volume entitled _The Poetical
Rhapsody_, by Francis Davidson, edited, with memoirs and notes, by Nicholas
H. Nicolas, London, Pickering, 1826, under the head of "A Contention
betwixt a Wife, a Widow, and a Maid," p. 21., occur the following lines:
"_Widow._ Marriage is a continual feast.
_Maid._ Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out," &c.