Bede, on Prov 21:9

“It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.”

“It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, etc. It is so true that it is better to sit in the corner of the housetop, that is, in the secret height of a more continent life, than with a wicked woman in a house, which you share with her, so that even if the best woman is offered to you for marriage, it is better to lead a celibate life for the sake of the companionship of the Lamb, having despised marriage.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.