(Sifting my future to predict its fault)

"Purchase and sale being thus so plain a point,

How of a certain soul bound up, maybe,

I' the barter with the body and money-bags?

From the bride's soul what is it you expect?"

Why, loyalty and obedience,—wish and will

To settle and suit her fresh and plastic mind

To the novel, not disadvantageous mould!

Father and mother shall the woman leave,

Cleave to the husband, be it for weal or woe: