“Experience, though no written authority / Were in the world…
“Experience, though no written authority / Were in the world, is good enough for me / To speak of the woe that is in marriage; / For, gentlemen, since I was twelve years of age, / Thanked be to God who is eternally alive, / I have had five husbands at the church door– / If I so often might have been wedded — / And all were worthy men in their way / But to me it was told, certainly, it is not long ago, / That since Christ went never but once / To a wedding, in the Cana of Galilee, / That by that same example he taught me / That I should be wedded but once.”
Read Details