Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

The couplet warns against treating marriage as the finish line of affection. It suggests that “courtship” should not cease once vows are exchanged; rather, the attentiveness, persuasion, and tenderness associated with wooing must continue within marriage. The lines imply that love is sustained by ongoing effort—renewed acts of consideration and desire—so that the relationship does not harden into complacency. In a broader moral sense, the quote frames marriage not as a reward that ends striving, but as a new stage that requires the same (or greater) emotional labor and imaginative engagement that preceded it.