All gifts and invitations cease, no friend will esteem thee, and thou shalt be compelled to lament thy misery, and make thy mone with Bartholomæus Scheræus, that famous Poet Laureat, and professor of Hebrew in Witenberge: I had finished this work long since, but that inter alia dura & tristia quæ misero mihi pene tergum fregerunt (I use his own words) amongst many miseries which almost broke my back, συζυγία ob Xantipismum, a shrew to my wife, tormented my minde above measure, and beyond the rest.

So shalt thou be compelled to complain, and to cry out at last, with Phoroneus the lawyer, How happy had I been, if I had wanted a wife!

If this which I have said will not suffice, see more in Lemnius lib. 4. cap. 13. de occult. nat. mir. Espensæus de continentia. lib. 6. cap. 8. Kornman de virginitate, Platina in Amor. dial. Practica artis amandi, Barbarus de re uxoria. Arnisæus in polit. cap. 3. and him that is instar omnium, Nevisanus the Lawyer, Sylva nuptial. almost in every page.