unfledged

[…] we, poor unfledged,

Have never wing’d from view o’ the nest, nor know not

What air’s from home.

Temptations have since then been born to’s; for

In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;

Your precious self had then not cross’d the eyes

Of my young play-fellow.

He had long since determined that Magdaléna should marry no one of the sons of his moneyed friends, nor yet any of the sprouting lawyers or unfledged business youths who made up the masculine half of the younger fashionable set.