1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Joel 1:8 | Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. | Youth, whom she espoused first. Such are more tenderly loved, particularly where polygamy prevails. (Calmet) --- So Dido speaks of Sichaeus, Virgil, Aeneid iv.: Ille meos primus qui se mihi junxit amores Abstulit, ille habeat secum servetque sepulchro. |