And to objectors seek for no reply:

Truth, doubt, and error, will be mix’d below—

Be thou content the greater truths to know,

And in obedience rest thee—For thy life

Thou needest counsel—now a happy wife,

A widow soon! and then, my sister, then

Think not of marriage, think no more of men;—

Life will have comforts; thou wilt much enjoy 610

Of moderate good, then do not this destroy;

Fear much, and wed no more; by passion led, }