ABSTRACT
The man says: ‘I admit the truth that your husband rejoices in a character universally worthy, and is endowed with blessed joys more than all men alive, since he has deserved to savour in his embraces the joys of your exalted person. But I am mightily surprised that you consent to allow marital affection, which any couple is allowed to have after being joined in matrimony, to appropriate the name of love, for it is clearly known that love cannot claim a place between husband and wife. Although they may be united in great and boundless affection, their feelings cannot be gathered under the heading of any true definition of love.
