If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;

suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -

But at the last she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two edged sword.

She openeth her hand to the poor, yea she stretcheth forth her hands to such as have need

Such is the way also of a wife that breaketh wedlock, which wipeth her mouth like as when she hath eaten, and sayeth, "As for me, I have done no harm."