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Marriage
The ------ spawn of Love and Feare
That Haunt, and Hag the Marryd Paire
And make them both Ride one another
With Fits of th' Incubus, and Mother.
That Haunt, and Hag the Marryd Paire
And make them both Ride one another
With Fits of th' Incubus, and Mother.
Devourd by Great, and little Friends,
Like Candles burning at both ends,
The Insolence of Great Relations,
And Petulance of mean, and Base ones.
Like Candles burning at both ends,
The Insolence of Great Relations,
And Petulance of mean, and Base ones.
[Who] Would have hang t' have been possest
Would do as much to be Releast.
Would do as much to be Releast.
That with worldly Goods
Indow each other, Claps, and Nodes,
Until his Horns become the Theams
Of Western-pug-wit on the Temes,
The Everlasting Subject matter,
Of Repartees, upon the water.
Indow each other, Claps, and Nodes,
Until his Horns become the Theams
Of Western-pug-wit on the Temes,
The Everlasting Subject matter,
Of Repartees, upon the water.
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Whence Lovers who had often been slighted
For b'ing Adventurers, unknighted,
As soone as once they have been Dubd
Or else more honorably Tubd:
Their Names in Blazon vamp'd with Sirs
Have now the Damzels, and their Spurs.
For b'ing Adventurers, unknighted,
As soone as once they have been Dubd
Or else more honorably Tubd:
Their Names in Blazon vamp'd with Sirs
Have now the Damzels, and their Spurs.
Make marriages a Greater Sin
Without Degrees then those within;
No wonder then th' are no more ty'd
To Articles on either side,
But rather use their Freedom more,
And own it, then they Durst before:
For those who take but one at once
All others for the Time Renounce,
And that's sufficient to perform
Engagements only made for Form,
And, if at Certaine times th' are free,
'Tis at their Choyce when they shalbe.
Without Degrees then those within;
No wonder then th' are no more ty'd
To Articles on either side,
But rather use their Freedom more,
And own it, then they Durst before:
For those who take but one at once
All others for the Time Renounce,
And that's sufficient to perform
Engagements only made for Form,
And, if at Certaine times th' are free,
'Tis at their Choyce when they shalbe.
Who Henpeck none to that Degree
As Grave men in Authority,
And still the more th' are great and Rich
The more they Hug, the Dear Caprich.
As Grave men in Authority,
And still the more th' are great and Rich
The more they Hug, the Dear Caprich.
For whores of Hectors get the Pox
As Pullets have been clapd by Rooks.
As Pullets have been clapd by Rooks.
Turn's her gentle Soft Compliance
To Endless Quarrels and Defyance.
To Endless Quarrels and Defyance.
That would not sel his Liberty
His ease and Quietness to Buy.
His ease and Quietness to Buy.
Marryd a Crossgraind Lady, more Ill Naturd
Then Malice (in the Letany) and Hatred.
Then Malice (in the Letany) and Hatred.
A man that like a By-blow, and his mother,
Were æqually ashamed of one another.
Were æqually ashamed of one another.
Especially, so great a Son o' th' Church,
Th' h' was thought to be begotten in the Porch.
Th' h' was thought to be begotten in the Porch.
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