"If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.
Struldbrugg bat bere izaerako beste norbaitekin ezkontzea gertatzen bada, bietako gazteena laurogeira iristen denean ezkontza hautsi egiten da automatikoki, erresumaren mesede gisa. Zeren eta, legeak uste baitu, arrazoizko barkamena dela, berek errurik izan gabe munduan betierekoz jarraitzera kondenatuta daudenek ez izatea gainera beren atsekabea bikoiztua emazte baten zamaz.