Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXI

As to the love of tender beauties, 'tis surer than friendship or kin: even mid restless tempests you retain 4 rights over it. No doubt, so. But one has to reckon with fashion's whirl, with nature's waywardness, with the stream of the monde's opinion- 8 while the sweet sex is light as fluff. Moreover, the opinions of her husband should by a virtuous wife be always honored; i % your faithful mistress thus may in a trice be swept away: with love jokes Satan.