“How many young spouses, loving their husbands tenderly and disinterestedly, if they were but informed of these facts, would watch over and preserve their partners’ healths, instead of exciting them to over-indulgence.
“I send you a copy of Italian verses, appropriate, like the German stanzas you have quoted in your work, to the above remarks:
“‘Merta gli alleri al crine
Chi scende in campo armato,
Chi a cento squadre a lato,
Impallidir nun sa:
Ma piu gloria ha nel fronte
Chi, alla ragion soggetto,
D’un sconsigliato astello
Trionfator si fà.’[[34]]