Return we, and our tale of man and wife recount.

A sequel to that incident ’tween man and wife

Is looked for by the mind of him who’s watched their life.

The incident of man and wife recounted here

Of each man’s soul and flesh the parable is, clear.375

The wife the flesh is; man’s the soul; he’s wisdom, too;

They’re emblems also of all good and evil, true.

The two, of need, existing in this earthly home,

By day and night at war are;—always quarrelsome.

The wife requires her various household garniture,