The tna'im contained guarantees of sufficient substance that the couple's future might now be seen as entirely settled.

The prisoners clank their chains.

If they be foule th’are odious, and if faire, Th’are like rich veſſel ful of poyſnous drugs, Or like black ſerpents arm’d with golden ſcales, For my owne part,they ſhall not trouble me.

[…] I did not know her then, or I could never have been so infatuated as I was, to a creature so every way her inferior […]