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.
[If a young Wife should want an Heir]
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a young Wife should want an Heir,
And pine at the Dishonour,
Her Husband ought to have a Care
How he reflects upon her,
And pine at the Dishonour,
Her Husband ought to have a Care
How he reflects upon her,
For if she, finds, that he believes,
It's only her Misfortune,
It's ten to one but she deceives
Her Spouse behind the Curtain.
It's only her Misfortune,
It's ten to one but she deceives
Her Spouse behind the Curtain.
For nothing grieves a Woman more,
When jolly, gay, and youthful,
Than to be thought without the Pow'r,
When wed, of being fruitful.
When jolly, gay, and youthful,
Than to be thought without the Pow'r,
When wed, of being fruitful.
Therefore 'tis Prudence in a Man
To ease her Peturbations,
And cure her Sorrows, if he can,
By pious Exhortations.
To ease her Peturbations,
And cure her Sorrows, if he can,
By pious Exhortations.
For if a Husband once upbraids
His Wife of being barren,
Perhaps she'll suffer other Blades
To sport within her Warren:
His Wife of being barren,
Perhaps she'll suffer other Blades
To sport within her Warren:
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And if she finds the Bus'ness done
By sinful Copulation,
Her Spouse must be content to own
A mottl'd Generation.
By sinful Copulation,
Her Spouse must be content to own
A mottl'd Generation.
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