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.
[Where mutual Love 'twixt Man and Wife]
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mutual Love 'twixt Man and Wife
Adorns a marry'd Station,
It sweetens all the Cares of Life,
And leaves no room for Passion.
Adorns a marry'd Station,
It sweetens all the Cares of Life,
And leaves no room for Passion.
Angelick Peace, that Heav'nly Dow'r,
That estimable Treasure,
Crowns ev'ry happy Day and Hour
With inexpressive Pleasure.
That estimable Treasure,
Crowns ev'ry happy Day and Hour
With inexpressive Pleasure.
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Indearing Smiles, and loving Words,
Give Comfort to each other;
And ev'ry kind Embrace, affords
New Causes of another.
Give Comfort to each other;
And ev'ry kind Embrace, affords
New Causes of another.
Each Minute blooms with fresh Delight,
That ripens to a Blessing;
And Love unweary'd Crowns the Night
With Joys beyond expressing.
That ripens to a Blessing;
And Love unweary'd Crowns the Night
With Joys beyond expressing.
Fill'd with Content reciprocal,
They ease each other's Labours:
Thus do they live belov'd of all,
And honour'd by their Neighbours.
They ease each other's Labours:
Thus do they live belov'd of all,
And honour'd by their Neighbours.
Whilst jarring Fools in Discord dwell,
That 'tis a Shame to hear 'em;
And prove as noisy as Bow-Bell,
To all that live but near 'em.
That 'tis a Shame to hear 'em;
And prove as noisy as Bow-Bell,
To all that live but near 'em.
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