What was shakespear thinking?!!!? Pls help!!?!?

Question:what does this poem mean:
You see, sweet maid, we marry
A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
And make conceive a bark of baser kind
By bud of nobler race.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: what does this poem mean:
You see, sweet maid, we marry
A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
And make conceive a bark of baser kind
By bud of nobler race.

It may help to know something about a particular farming practice in Shakespeare's time -- one reason you may be lost is that he's using the imagery from a particular farming technique as his metaphor, and in his time everyone would have gotten it but people today may be confused -- just like if you were to tell Shakespeare something like "this is kind of like when you IM someone but they're away from their computer," HE'D be confused.

Some farmers would use a technique called "grafting" for fruit trees or kinds of bushes sometimes; say you had two apple trees, one from a variety that was hard to take care of because it required special handling, more moderate weather, better pest control, etc., but the apples it produced were really fancy. And then you had another apple tree that was more used to rougher weather, but the apples it produced were fine, but not quite as refined. Grafting is a technique to sort of splice a branch from the fussier tree to the hardier tree, so you've got the tree that can stand to be outside, but on that tree there's one branch that produces the better kind of apples.

He's talking about people and using grafting as a metaphor.

I think it means that women is a gentling influence on men. marrying a woman tames a man.

1st answer's good for the given lines, but need to know the rest before and after, the whole context, to answer properly.