Note 24 — Chapter I · MARRIAGE
George Herbert Ely translation
“Ainsi, comme j’ayme m’amye, Cinq, six, sept heures et demye L’entretiendray, voyre dix ans, Sans avoir paour des médisants, Et sans danger de ma personne.” —Clément Marot, Dialogue nouveau.
[Thus, as I love my doxy dear, Five, six, seven hours, nay full ten year I’ll court her, free from fear of slander: And scatheless—for I but philander.]