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.
[Mother's thro' too much Pride or Love]
Mother
's thro' too much Pride or Love,
Ne'er fail of Inclination,
To breed their Children far above
The level of their Station.
Ne'er fail of Inclination,
To breed their Children far above
The level of their Station.
The Ale-Wife to the Dancing-School
Must send her Fav'rite Daughter,
To spend what she should give the Fool,
To match her well hereafter.
Must send her Fav'rite Daughter,
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To match her well hereafter.
So that when Miss, by am'rous Sighs,
Declares she's ripe and ready,
In Minuet and Boree lies
The Fortune of my Lady.
Declares she's ripe and ready,
In Minuet and Boree lies
The Fortune of my Lady.
Thus Bred, the wanton airy Lass
A Working Slave despises,
And rather chusing to be base,
She falls before she rises.
A Working Slave despises,
And rather chusing to be base,
She falls before she rises.
When if the Damsel had been bred
To th'Ladle and her Needle,
She would not then have been misled
To Ogle, Kiss, and Wheedle.
To th'Ladle and her Needle,
She would not then have been misled
To Ogle, Kiss, and Wheedle.
Therefore those Parents Act awry,
And in the main deceive 'em,
Who breed their Children proudly high,
Yet nothing have to leave 'em.
And in the main deceive 'em,
Who breed their Children proudly high,
Yet nothing have to leave 'em.
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