Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ I speak of a Disparity of Years, which, in the Moral, takes in all Other Disproportions. The One’s too Young, T’other too Old; to shew us that Marriage is out of Season if it does not Hit the very Critical Point betwixt them. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Marriges are Govern’d, rather by an Over ruling Fatality, then by any Solemnity of Choice and Judgment; though ‘tis a Hard Matter to find out a Woman, even at the Best, that's of a Just Scantling for her Age, Person, Humour, and Fortune to make a Wife of. This Fable presents us with One single Disparity that is of it self Sufficient, without a more then Ordinary Measure of Virtue and Prudence, to make a Man Miserable and Ridiculous. ”
