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  • The sum of all that makes a just man happy
    Consists in the well choosing of his wife:
    And there, well to discharge it, does require
    Equality of years, of birth, of fortune;
    For beauty being poor, and not cried up
    By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither.
    And wealth, when there's such difference in years,
    And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.

    Thomas Dekker, Philip Massinger (2010). “Elizabethan Drama II”, p.875, Cosimo, Inc.