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Responses from Men, by Various

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Title: The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men

Author: Various

Release Date: November 8, 2004 [EBook #13971]

Language: English

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THE
Fifteen Comforts
OF
MATRIMONY.

OR,

Looking glass for all Those who
have Enter'd in that Holy and Comfortable State.
herein are sum'd up all those Blessings that attend
a Married Life.

_Dedicated to Batchelors and Widdowers._

_London._ Printed in the Year, 1706.

The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony.

_The First Comfort of Matrimony._

Happy were Man, when born as free as Air,
Did he that freedom as he ought, prefer;
But the first Thing he sets his Heart upon,
Is to be Married, and to be undone:
On some young _Girl_ he casts his wanton Eyes,
And wooes her with fine Complements and Toys.
But that's not all--he grows in Love at last,
And is impatient till those Joys he taste:
Nor do's the wishing Virgin disagree