QUOTH John to his teacher, Good Sir, if you please,
I wou'd beg your advice in a difficult case;
'Tis a weighty concern, that may hold one for life —
'Tis, in short, the old story of taking a wife.
There's a pair of young damsels I'm proffer'd to marry,
And whether to choose puts me in a quandary:
They're alike in age, family, fortune, and feature,
Only one has more  and the other