If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters

Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride.

Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.

Seek a wife in your own sphere

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.