John Trapp on Proverbs 5:16

Verſ. 16. Let thy fountains bee disperſed.] Thy fountains, that is, thy children: Let thine end in marrying bee, that thou mayeſt have a numerous offſpring, that may bee as an Infantry to the Kingdome of Heaven. Lawful Marriage is uſually bleſſed with many children: and the contrary, Hoſ. 4.10. Eraſmus tells of one Combe, Eraſm. in chiliad. a young woman in Euboea, that being married to one whom ſhee liked, became Mother and Grand-mother to a hundred children. Eraſm. de inſtit. matrim. The ſame Author tells of an Engliſh man, a cripple, that married a blind woman, lived very lovingly with her, and had by her twelve luſty boyes that had no defect or deformity.