At her father-in-law’s must the widow have her bed.
Exodus, 20, 22, it is penned:
Widows and orphans thou shalt not offend.
Two verses further he threatens, wrathful and grim
To make widows of all the women that anger him.
Leviticus, 21, verse 14, thou read’st
That a widow won’t do for the wife of a priest.
A chapter further, one verse less, we have read,
That a childless widow must eat her father’s bread.
From Numbers, 30, verse 10, we clearly infer,