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.
[Should those who climb the upper Sphere]
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those who climb the upper Sphere,
And turn the mighty Wheel of State,
To Envy's lying Tongue give Ear,
'Twould be a Torment to be Great.
And turn the mighty Wheel of State,
To Envy's lying Tongue give Ear,
'Twould be a Torment to be Great.
The Croud, they know not why, approve
This Man's good Fortune, t'other's Fate;
But of the two, their fickle Love
Proves oft more dang'rous, than their Hate.
This Man's good Fortune, t'other's Fate;
But of the two, their fickle Love
Proves oft more dang'rous, than their Hate.
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He therefore shews himself most wise,
That courts no popular Esteem;
But when he does to Greatness rise,
Thinks publick Praise a noisy Dream:
That courts no popular Esteem;
But when he does to Greatness rise,
Thinks publick Praise a noisy Dream:
Nor is he truly brave, that fears
What Malice to his Charge can lay;
But unprovok'd, with Safety steers,
In spite of all his Foes can say.
What Malice to his Charge can lay;
But unprovok'd, with Safety steers,
In spite of all his Foes can say.
No factious Party ever loves
The prosp'rous Fav'rites of a Crown;
But whomsoe'er the Court approves,
The other are for pulling down.
The prosp'rous Fav'rites of a Crown;
But whomsoe'er the Court approves,
The other are for pulling down.
T'as always been a Rule with those,
Who from their lawful Duty swerve,
To rail at Men of Worth, as Foes,
And cry up Knaves that least deserve.
Who from their lawful Duty swerve,
To rail at Men of Worth, as Foes,
And cry up Knaves that least deserve.
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