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Rh To wed a maid is therefore good Before developed womanhood; Nor need the loving parents wait Beyond the early age of eight.

The early signs one kinsman slay; The bosom takes the next away; Friends die for passion gratified; The father, if she ne'er be bride.

For if she bides a maiden still, She gives herself to whom she will; Then marry her in tender age: So warns the heaven-begotten sage.

If she, unwed, unpurified, Too long within the home abide, She may no longer married be: A miserable spinster, she.

A father then, avoiding sin, Weds her, the appointed time within Where'er a husband may be had) To good, indifferent, or bad.

Now I will try to give her to one of her own station. You know the saying:

And finally: