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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.
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Moral Reflexions on the foregoing Dialogue.

[He's only brave that can sustain]

He 's only brave that can sustain
Ill Fortune with a Gen'rous Mind;
Cowards are bold upon the Main,
Whilst wafted with a prosp'rous Wind.
But he's the Pilot that can steer
His rowling Bark thro' raging Seas,
And work her safely, void of Fear,
Thro' Tempests, to the Port of Peace.
Those who alone their Brav'ry owe
To outward Grandeur and Success,
If by Misfortunes once brought low,
Prove: always despicably base.

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Those, who are truly Brave, retain
Their Courage under adverse Fate,
When happy, never proudly vain,
Or fawning in a wretched State.
But do in all Conditions steer
Undaunted, with a comely Grace;
In Power never too severe,
Or much dejected in Distress.
He's blest that fears no fatal Hour,
Nor pines at any cross Event,
Who knows 'tis neither Wealth or Pow'r,
But Wisdom that ingrafts Content.