[6262]Dos est magna parentum
Virtus, et metuens alterius viri
Certo foedere castitas.
And all day after hid him as an owl,
So woe was his wife looked so foul.
[6269]Si tibi deformis conjux, si serva venusta,
Ne utaris serva,———
Howsoever, quod iterum maneo, I would advise thee thus much, be she fair or foul, to choose a wife out of a good kindred, parentage, well brought up, in an honest place.
[6271]Primum animo tibi proponas quo sanguine creta.
Qua forma, qua aetate, quibusque ante omnia virgo