901 Who give their soul to love of wife acquire not nobler gain; Who give their soul to strenuous deeds such meaner joys disdain.

902 Who gives himself to love of wife, careless of noble name, His wealth will clothe him with o'erwhelming shame.

903 Who to his wife submits, his strange, unmanly mood Will daily bring him shame among the good.

904 No glory crowns e'en manly actions wrought By him who dreads his wife, nor gives the other world a thought.

905 Who quakes before his wife will ever tremble too, Good deeds to men of good deserts to do.

906 Though, like the demi-gods [angels], in bliss they dwell secure from harm, Those have no dignity who fear the housewife's slender arm.

907 The dignity of modest womanhood excels His manliness, obedient to a woman's law who dwells.

908 Who to the will of her with beauteous brow their lives conform, Aid not their friends in need, nor acts of charity perform.

909 No virtuous deed, no seemly wealth, no pleasure, rests With them who live obedient to their wives' behests.

910 Where pleasures of the mind, that dwell in realms of thought, abound, Folly, that springs from overweening woman's love, is never found.