No learned man I’d wed

If I ever took a husband, I’ve always said,

it wouldn’t be no learned man I’d wed.

Wit’s not the thing you need around the house,

And it’s no joy to have a bookish spouse.

When I get married, you can be your life

My man will study nothing but his wife;

He’ll have no other book to read but me,

And won’t — so you please, Ma’am — know A from B.

Martine, Act 5, Scene 3, The Learned Ladies by Moliere and translated by Richard Wilbur