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.
[How can a vicious Husband blame]
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can a vicious Husband blame
The Failings of a wanton Wife,
If his Example taught the Dame
To wander from a vertuous Life.
The Failings of a wanton Wife,
If his Example taught the Dame
To wander from a vertuous Life.
He, that expects his Bride should prove
To his Embraces truly Just,
Should ne'er debase his Nuptial Love,
By giving looses to his Lust.
To his Embraces truly Just,
Should ne'er debase his Nuptial Love,
By giving looses to his Lust.
Man o'er his Wife the Rule may claim,
But if she finds he does her Wrong,
She fails not to revenge the same,
By the ill use of Tail or Tongue.
But if she finds he does her Wrong,
She fails not to revenge the same,
By the ill use of Tail or Tongue.
Women are of Resentment quick,
Prone much to Jealousie and Spight,
And love to shew us Trick for Trick,
If we their kind Embraces slight.
Prone much to Jealousie and Spight,
And love to shew us Trick for Trick,
If we their kind Embraces slight.
How can we blame the Charming Fair,
And at their wanton Follies scoff,
Since we ourselves cannot forbear
The Vices we accuse them of.
And at their wanton Follies scoff,
Since we ourselves cannot forbear
The Vices we accuse them of.
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Would we, their Tyrant Lords, but tame
The restless Fury of our Lust,
The Ladies must of course reclaim,
And prove more Continent and Just.
The restless Fury of our Lust,
The Ladies must of course reclaim,
And prove more Continent and Just.
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