Note 16 — Chapter I · MARRIAGE
George Herbert Ely translation
“Anna: The maiden invokes with all her prayers the sweets of wedlock, and yet with the first amorous intoxication begin the woes of the conjugal bed; the woman is scarce nestled upon the heart of the man than with one consent they long for separation. Phyllis: Anna, little it recks me that thou decriest the bonds of wedlock and the crabbed sour race of men; my heart is a-fire with love and I am tormented with thirst for marriage.... I deem it better far to marry betimes; wedlock is a refuge where modesty may shelter herself.”—(J. Cats, pp. 6, 7, 16.)