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- Suitor hesitates to marry girl as immature (or too delicate). Girl's father protests, saying that she has had three children. J1279.3
- Marriage by royal order. Widow hesitates to marry. Queen sends her a letter ordering her to marry the bearer (a suitor). T122
- Bid raised for queen's favors until she hesitates. Jester replies, "If a man have goods enough, he might have a sovereign lady." U66.1.1