...number of the poor — to eradicate every encouragement to 'wedded love, true source of human offspring, of relations dear, and all the charities of father, son and brother' — if these be evils — these are evils consequent upon laying farm to farm." 3 But the strongest...

...narrator's paean to wedded love makes similarly large claims for marriage: "wedded Love" is the origin of "Relations dear, and all the Charities / Of Father, Son, and Brother" (4.750, 756—57). Remarkably, marriage enables not just family relations but relations among men....