Interested marriage

How does it help, if the silver flashes

and nevertheless the bridegroom is stupid?

a man who always sits with the box

and roots around in the bag,

divides with mammon his favour,

which belongs only to the woman:

his pastime makes the woman

honour often other Gods.

No wealth outweighs woe,

no thaler helps a bride,

if you build zwitracht in marriage

eventually you build a prison;

the tempest is not far,

where yellow ravens scream;

who would now so foolishly

do so and woo harm?