8
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
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Verse 8. Youth, whom she espoused first. Such are more tenderly loved, particularly where polygamy prevails. Calmet.—So Dido speaks of Sichæus, Virg. Æn. iv.:
Ille meos primus qui se mihi junxit amores
Abstulit, ille habeat secum servetque sepulchro.
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