That I would faine be eas’d of’t straight;
But alasse! I am afraid
I shall live and die a maid.”
The betrothal took place forty days before the wedding:—
“A contract of eternal bond of love,
Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,
Strengthened by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact
Seal’d in my function, by my testimony.”