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.
[The Man that's troubl'd with a Wife]
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Man that's troubl'd with a Wife
That's given much to Jangling,
Must oft submit, to ease his Life,
Or else he always Wrangling.
That's given much to Jangling,
Must oft submit, to ease his Life,
Or else he always Wrangling.
For Wives, tho' Doctors do affirm
They're Cold of Constitution,
Yet when they're vex'd they're very warm
In Tongue and Resolution.
They're Cold of Constitution,
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In Tongue and Resolution.
Patience is better far than Force,
For when the stubborn Grey-Mare
Is bent to prove the better Horse,
No Oaken Plant can tame her.
For when the stubborn Grey-Mare
Is bent to prove the better Horse,
No Oaken Plant can tame her.
It is of no Effect to boast
His Power or his Riches,
All Arguments and Means are lost
On Wives that wear the Breeches.
His Power or his Riches,
All Arguments and Means are lost
On Wives that wear the Breeches.
What tho' the angry Fool should fight,
Controul her and Fatigue her,
All he can do's but washing white
The Ethiopian Negro.
Controul her and Fatigue her,
All he can do's but washing white
The Ethiopian Negro.
Therefore approve what e'er she says,
Commend, but never blame her,
He's wise that gives a Scold her ways,
For nothing will reclaim her.
Commend, but never blame her,
He's wise that gives a Scold her ways,
For nothing will reclaim her.
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