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 |
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[Full happily, tho' something late]
Full happily, tho' something late,
We're freed from the cursed Marriage State,
That Bane and Torment of our Lives;
You who've of late put on those Chains,
And blame our Conduct, count your Gains,
When your new Dears are grown meer Wives.
A little Patience, we beseech,
E're you begin to us to preach,
And you e're long will surely find,
That even they who fare the best,
And envy'd are by all the rest,
Are far from Blest in their own Mind.
We're freed from the cursed Marriage State,
That Bane and Torment of our Lives;
You who've of late put on those Chains,
And blame our Conduct, count your Gains,
When your new Dears are grown meer Wives.
A little Patience, we beseech,
E're you begin to us to preach,
And you e're long will surely find,
That even they who fare the best,
And envy'd are by all the rest,
Are far from Blest in their own Mind.
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