Note 105 — Chapter V · THE HUSBAND AND THE VARIOUS WAYS OF SLIPPING HIS YOKE
George Herbert Ely translation
“You have been to seek a little school-miss, an angel who dared not lift her eyes, and who to all appearance was candour to the finger-tips.... She was thinking things over: she was enticing you into her trap, because your rank and fortune suited her, but determined at the bottom of her soul to give you a ‘combing’ later: she says in confidence to her friends, ‘randy steeds need breaking in’.” (Jean d’Ivry: Les Secretz et Loix de mariage).