Nuptial Dialogues and Debates Or, An Useful Prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing, Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the excellent Vertues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools, and Wantons; old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toaping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satyrical Poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In Two Volumes. By the Author of the London Spy [i.e. Edward Ward] |
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Moral Reflexions on the foregoing Dialogue.
[He that endeavours, tho' in vain]
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that endeavours, tho' in vain,
His Riches fairly to increase,
Is still a just and honest Man,
Tho' disappointed of Success.
His Riches fairly to increase,
Is still a just and honest Man,
Tho' disappointed of Success.
The Merchant, tho' he does provide
Against the worst, must Hazards run;
And tho' the Odds are on his Side,
By vent'ring, he is oft undone.
Against the worst, must Hazards run;
And tho' the Odds are on his Side,
By vent'ring, he is oft undone.
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If by such Means Misfortunes fall,
And Chance should thwart his good Intent,
A Wife should freely part with all,
Her Husband's Ruin to prevent.
And Chance should thwart his good Intent,
A Wife should freely part with all,
Her Husband's Ruin to prevent.
In such a Case, no marry'd Dame
Should for herself apart provide,
Because she cannot justly blame
His wilful Folly, Vice, or Pride.
Should for herself apart provide,
Because she cannot justly blame
His wilful Folly, Vice, or Pride.
Misfortunes, by our selves unsought,
Are oft inflicted from above,
No Wife, that knows her Duty, ought
To let 'em cool her nuptial Love.
Are oft inflicted from above,
No Wife, that knows her Duty, ought
To let 'em cool her nuptial Love.
A Woman should her utmost do,
To yield an honest Spouse Supplies;
Who does not, is a jilting Shrew,
That's neither dutiful or wise.
To yield an honest Spouse Supplies;
Who does not, is a jilting Shrew,
That's neither dutiful or wise.
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