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Cupid and Hymen

a Voyage to the Isles of love and matrimony. Containing A most Diverting Account of the Inhabitants of those Two Vast and Populous Countries, their Laws, Customs, and Government. Interspersed With many useful Directions and Cautions how to avoid the dangerous Precipices and Quicksands that these Islands abound with, and wherein so many Thousands, who have undertaken the Voyage, have miserably perished. By the Facetious H. C. [i.e. Henry Carey] and T. B.: To which are added, a map of the Island of Marriage; The Batchelor's Estimate of the Expences attending a Married Life. The Married Man's Answer to it; None but Fools Marry, a Vindication of the Estimate; and a Boulster Lecture, &c. By Simon Single ... The Fourth Edition

Carey, Henry (1687?-1743)

TO CHLOE, WITH THE Voyage to the Island of Love.

[This charming Isle, which ravishes the Sight]

[Here the still Ocean quiet flows]

[Love, with his Darts does ev'ry Mortal wound]

[For all the various Charms, that can adorn]

[Ye Mortals, who, inflam'd with am'rous Fires]

[Go giddy Heads, those real Pleasures taste]

[Soon as one lands, a Goddess charming fair]

[He whom you there behold with Looks severe]

[My Words disjointed are, and wild]

[There one may tender Lovers see]

[Methought, I saw my charming Dear]

[Fair Promises she always makes]

[Time and Respect o'ercome all Obstacles]

[What! always sigh, and bear eternal Pains!]

[In close Retirement lives each Family]

[With falling Tears my Cheeks I stain'd]

[Her Name is Cruelty, Love's deadly Foe]

[From Lovers Eyes, this Torrent takes its Source]

[Alas! Zelinda, cruel and severe]

[Despair's dire Lake, where Nymphs and Swains forlorn]

[Alas! she seem'd to say, unhappy Swain!]

[Strephon, at length, thy Passion I approve]

[Rejoice, my Heart, Zelinda is appeas'd]

[What Pleasures past expressing I possest!]

[Strephon, farewell, I dare no longer stay]

['Tis then decreed above, that I must dye]

[There all are upon groundless Quarrels bent]

[Suspicious, hot, and diffident I grew]

[Ye Trees, and Flow'rs, I in my Transports cry'd]

[The mortal Enemy of Pain]

[With Scorn and Rigour arm your Eyes]

[Think, think, how cutting is the Grief]

[And, which perhaps, may seem most strange]

[I was her sole Delight, with me]

[Pleasure's great Enemy, and Foe profess'd]

[Mourn, mourn, my Eyes, mourn your unhappy Fate]

[Go, perfect Lovers, go, feast ev'ry Sense]

[There an eternal Spring is seen]

A MAP OF THE ISLAND OF MARRIAGE.

[How sweet to warble in a Cage]

[To satisfy Love's raging Flames]

[Ye virtuous Fair, our Island's Pride]

[On equal Hinges turns the Marriage State]

[Gallants, who study Night and Day]

[Deceivers, Sly, Gallants, away]

[When once two Hearts which burn with mutual Fires]

[Cease, jealous Fools, your Storming, cease]

[Whene'er We Lovers sue in vain]

[With us all lead contented Lives]

[Pinchwife, the maddest of the horned Train]

[When real Ills upon us fall]

[Full happily, tho' something late]

[Whilst th'angry Waves run Mountains high]

[Why will you part with that dear Liberty]

[Whoe'er, once freed from Marriage Chain]

[Patience, too soon your Bliss you boast]

[In th'Island which from Marriage takes its Name]

Art asleep Husband? A Boulster Lecture,

The Cure of CUCKOLDOM:

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[Soon as one lands, a Goddess charming fair]

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Soon as one lands, a Goddess charming fair,
The Mistress of the Prudent and Discreet,
Reason, whose Eyes so bright and piercing are,
Obstructs our passing on, and crys, Retreat.
But oh! the dazzled Sense denies its Aid,
And hides her beauteous Features from our Eyes;
'Till lest amidst her Foes, the charming Maid,
Finds that no Man in Love was ever wise.