"It is commonly said that an army looks ill without its general and a castle without its castellan, and I say that a young married woman looks still worse without her husband unless there are very good reasons for it.
»Así como suele decirse que parece mal el ejército sin su general y el castillo sin su castellano, digo yo que parece muy peor la mujer casada y moza sin su marido, cuando justísimas ocasiones no lo impiden.