Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot

After the party finished, the newly-weds again progressed to the birdal chamber, where for some time they were supposed to make their best efforts to multiply, disregarding hygiene in favour of conception. Only on day three was it prescribed for the young wife to descend the spiral staircase of St Christine and finally have a bath.

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[…] said an older woman, bending over her, hush, little fishling! Ichuk, my son, is dead, but we will get thee another man.