Oh no,

Woe, woe!

With candour to digress,

Eliphalet’s wedding journey didn’t tremble with success.

He had not carried five miles his mouth-disputed face,

When his wedding garments parted in some inconvenient place;

He’d have given both his oxen to a wife that now was dead,

For her company two minutes with a needle and a thread.

But he pinned them up, with twinges of occasional distress,

Feeling that his wedding wouldn’t be a carnival of dress: