24.
Your marriage-arranging: see that it be not a bad arranging! Ye have arranged
too hastily: so there followeth therefrom-marriage-breaking!
And better marriage-breaking than marriage-bending, marriage-lying!-Thus spake
a woman unto me: "Indeed, I broke the marriage, but first did the marriage
break-me!
The badly paired found I ever the most revengeful: they make every one suffer
for it that they no longer run singly.
On that account want I the honest ones to say to one another: "We love each
other: let us see to it that we maintain our love! Or shall our pledging be
blundering?"
-"Give us a set term and a small marriage, that we may see if we are fit for
the great marriage! It is a great matter always to be twain."
Thus do I counsel all honest ones; and what would be my love to the Superman,
and to all that is to come, if I should counsel and speak otherwise!
Not only to propagate yourselves onwards but upwards-thereto, O my brethren,
may the garden of marriage help you!
