A good wife who is clean in deed and thought
Should surely not be watched continually;
The labor is in vain, it's plain to see,
To guard a shrew, it never will succeed.
I hold that it's sheer folly, there's no need,
It's labor wasted, keeping watch of wives;
Old learneds have so written in their lives.
But it's in vain, such effort is for naught.