Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
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Daughter won't hear of marrying.
_Le._ How say you! If I am not mistaken, she has been marriageable for some Time. She has been fit for a Husband a great While, ripe for Wedlock, ready for a Husband this great While. _Gi._ Why not, she is above seventeen, she's above two and twenty, she's in her nineteenth Year, she's above eighteen Years old. _Le._ But why is she averse to Marriage? _Gi._ She says she has a Mind to be married to Christ. _Le._ In Truth he has a great many Brides. But is she married to an evil Genius that lives chastly with a Husband? _Gi._ I don't think so. _Le._ How came that Whimsey into her Head? _Gi._ I can't tell, but there's no persuading her out of it by all that can be said to her. _Le._ You should take Care that there be no Tricksters that inveagle or draw her away. _Gi._ I know these Kidnappers well enough, and I drive this Kind of Cattel as far from my House as I can. _Le._ But what do you intend to do then? Do you intend to let her have |
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