What thou bidd'st,
Unargued, I obey; so God ordains:
God is thy law; thou mine: to know no more,
Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
--_Milton._
2026
When Sir Albert Morton died, his wife's grief was such that she shortly
followed him, and was laid by his side. Wotton's two lines on the event
have been celebrated as containing a volume in seventeen words:
"He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died."
Certainly there are few higher tributes in the world to a good husband
than this.
2027
The wife is the key of the house.
2028
A man's best fortune--or his worst--is a wife.
2029