¹⁶ 
Should your ^[a]springs (children) be dispersed,
As streams of water in the streets?
¹⁷ 
[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone,
And not the children of strangers with you.
¹⁸ 
Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.^(A)