Note 123 — Chapter V · THE HUSBAND AND THE VARIOUS WAYS OF SLIPPING HIS YOKE
George Herbert Ely translation
“Be obedient to your mother, show her honour and reverence, and take care to please her in everything you can, as is her due, as much because it is God’s commandment as that I know she merits it, and that you ought so to do if you wish to succeed, for having known her, I know that she will advise you so well that you will be therewith content” (Instructions of a Duke of Nemours to his sons).