DIPLOMACY REVISITED

DIPLOMACY REVISITED
(Chaucerian Verse)

Roger A. Davis

And should a husband be always on guard
To watch his speech and not let it offend
His wife who keeps a mental scoring card
Which totals her winner in the end?
If he said nothing and just grinned
When she would wear a new dress today
And he only a grin; there’d be war to pay

My advice to you men that marry
And want to have a truly blissful life
Where happiness is very, very merry
And void of gloom and unromantic strife
Is but to find a lady like my wife
Now if you think this wasn’t at all true
You, my friend, read it again for the clue