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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker quips that husbands are most appealing as lovers precisely when they are being unfaithful to their wives. It is a wry, cynical remark: the betrayal supplies the excitement, while the marriage itself apparently does not. The line treats infidelity as the thing that makes a husband romantic.
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