Mr. Punch's Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony

Mr. Punch's Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony is a humorous and witty book by various authors. Excerpt:

"My rushlight, when first kindled,

Twelve inches long wast thou;

And I behold thee dwindled

To one, my candle, now!

How brief thy span, contrasted

With rushlight's average life!

A happier dip had lasted

A week a happier wife.

Where is my husband got to?

Oh say, expiring light!

A man ought really not to

Stay out so every night."