Context: The author is telling a story to a young would-be husband which reveals the dangers of marrying for money, a story of a young fellow who marries a rich widow. As is inevitable, the husband and wife have their disagreements. She nags him, he reports, and drives him from home, then nags him for having sought comfort elsewhere. He says to her, "Husbands are in heaven, (quoth he), whose wives scold not." Now they are arguing over who has any sense, and the wife quotes the proverb about the bread and butter, a widely used and variously changed proverb.