Marriage

How wisely he does, who does not

sole his shoe with depraved meanness,

by which he gets some love.

Indeed money covers some errors;

but whoever expects from marriage

merely to fill the fat bag

with wealth, not virtue,

seldom will obtain happiness.

An honourable heart, a chaste body,

is more estimable than all the gold

which those set as their only criterion,

those whose favorite pastime

is looking at the attained dowry -

those who, when the purchase has been made,

and they examine it, too late,

curse their guilty cross, avarice.