v.
To Marg. Baldhoven, etc. lately
married.
Would’st love thy husband and thyself be
loved ?1
loved ?1
With mild observance all his humours meet ;2
So shall the casual bitter turn to sweet.3
’Tis his to order,—ours to heed ; for he4
Is the true head ; the aiding members we.5
Christ, with His Church conjoined in mystic
bands,6
bands,6
To man and wife the type in wedlock stands.7