[5799]. Si dotata erit, imperiosa, continuoque viro inequitare conabitur. Petrarch.
[5800]. If a woman nourish her husband, she is angry and impudent, and full of reproach. Eccles. xxv. 22. Scilicet uxori nubere nolo meae.
[5801]. Plautus Mil. Glor. act. 3. sc. 1. “To be a father is very pleasant, but to be a freeman still more so.”
[5802]. Stobaeus, fer. 66. Alex. ab Alexand. lib. 4. cap. 8.
[5803]. They shall attend the lamb in heaven, because they were not defiled with women, Apoc 14.
[5804]. Nuptiae repleat terram, virginitas Paradisum. Hier.
[5805]. Daphne in laurum semper virentem, immortalem docet gloriam paratam virginibus pudicitiam servantibus.
[5806]. Catul. car. nuptiali. “As the flower that grows in the secret inclosure of the garden, unknown to the flocks, impressed by the ploughshare, which also the breezes refresh, the heat strengthens, the rain makes grow: so is a virgin whilst untouched, whilst dear to her relatives, but when once she forfeits her chastity,” &c.
[5807]. Diet. salut. c. 22. pulcherrimum sertum infiniti precii, gemma, et pictura speciosa.
[5808]. Mart.