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virtuous, make overtures to one that is pure-minded, pay court to one

that is prudent? Yes, thou hast told me so Then, if thou knowest that

thou hast a wife, modest, virtuous, pure-minded and prudent, what is it

that thou seekest? And if thou believest that she will come forth

victorious froher

titles than those she possesses now dost thou think thou canst upon her

then, or in ill she be better then than she is now? Either thou

dost not hold her to be what thou sayest, or thou knowest not what thou

dost demand If thou dost not hold her to be what thou why dost thou seek

to prove her instead of treating her as guilty in the way that may seem

best to thee? but if she be as virtuous as thou believest, it is an

uncalled-for proceeding to make trial of truth itself, for, after trial,

it will but be in the same estimation as before Thus, then, it is

conclusive that to attee

and reckless s which we are not forced or compelled to

attempt, and which show from afar that it is plainly madness to attempt

them