As there are fifty different ends (counting all ends in----as well civil as religious) for which a woman takes a husband, she first sets about and carefully weighs, then separates and distinguishes in her mind, which of all that number of ends is hers: then by discourse, enquiry, argumentation, and inference, she investigates and finds out whether she has got hold of the right one----and if she has----then, by pulling it gently this way and that way, she further forms a judgment, whether it will not break in the drawing.

As there are fifty different ends for which a woman takes a husband, she first carefully weighs them all: then by discourse, enquiry, and inference, she investigates whether she has got hold of the right one - and if she has - then, by pulling it gently this way and that, she decides whether or not it will not break.
