This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats, which was published in the same year as the novel The Merchant of Venice. In the poem, a young man named William asks his father to marry him, but the young man refuses, saying that he would rather marry a woman than marry a man who is not his own age. The young man's father, however, refuses to marry his daughter-in-law because he does not want her to marry the man she does not love. He says that he will marry her because she is beautiful and has good manners, but he will not marry the woman who does not look like her father.