Enough to ferve for Satisfaction

Of niceft Scruples in the Action.

And if you can produce thofe Knobs,
Although they're but the Witches Drubs,
I'll pass them all upon account,

As if your natural Self had don't. Bi
Provided that they pass th? Opinion Hon
Of able Juries of old Women,

Who, us'd to judge all matter of Facts
For Bellies, may do fo for Backs.

Madam, quoth he) your Love's a Million,

To do, is lefs, than to be willing,

As I am, were it in my pow'r

T' obey, what you command, and more.
But for performing what you bid,

I thank y' as much as if I did.

You know I ought to have a care

To keep my Wounds for taking Air:

For Wounds, in those that are all Heart,
Are dangerous in any Part.

I find (quoth fbe) my Goods and Chattels Are like to prove but meer drawn Battels;

For

For ftill the longer we contend,
We are but farther off the End.
But granting now we should agree,
What is it you expect from me?

Your plighted Faith (quoth he) and Word

You paft in Heaven on Record,

Where all Contracts, to have and t' hold,

To raze Records, 'tis much more there, no
Quoth fbe, There are no Bargains driv❜n,
Nor Marriages clapp'd up in Heaven,
And that's the reason, as fome guess,
There is no Heav'n in Marriages;
Two things that naturally prefsion
Too narrowly, to be at eafe. en
Their bus'nefs there is only Love,
Which Marriage is not like t' improve,
Love, that's too generous, t' abide
To be against its Nature ty'd po

For where 'tis of it felf inclin'd,ap) Far I.

It breaks loose when it is confin'd,

A

And

And like the Soul, its Harbourer,
Debar'd the Freedom of the Air,
Difdains against its Will to ftay,
But ftruggles out, and flies away:
And therefore never can comply,
T'endure the Matrimonial Tye,
That binds the Female and the Male,
Where th' one is but the other's Bail;
Like Roman Gaolers, when they flept,
Chain'd to the Prisoners they kept.
Of which the True and Faithfull'ft Lover
Gives best Security, to fuffer.

Marriage is but a Beast, fome fay,
That carries double in foul way;
And therefore 'tis not to b' admir'd
It fhould fo fuddenly be tir'd:
A Bargain at a venture made

Between two Partners in a Trade;

(For what's inferr'd by T' have, and T' hold,

But fomething paft away, and fold?)

That as it makes but one of two,

Reduces all things elfe as low:

And

And at the best is but a Mart
Between the one and th' other part,
That on the Marriage-day is paid,
Or hour of Death, the Bet is laid,
And all the rest of Better or Worfe
Both are but Lofers out of Purfe.

For when upon their ungot Heirs

Th' entail themselves, and all that's theirs,
What blinder Bargain e'er was driv❜n,

Or Wager laid at fix and seven

;

To pass themselves away, and turn

Their Childrens Tenants e'er they're born?

Beg one another Idiot

To Guardians, c'er they're begot;

Or ever fhall, perhaps, by th' one,
Who's bound to vouch 'em for his own,
Though got b' Implicit Generation.
And General Club of all the Nation :
For which fhe's fortify'd no lefs,
Than all the Ifland, with four Seas:
Exacts the Tribute of her Dow'r,
In ready Infolence and Pow'r;

And

And make him pass away, to have

And hold, to her, himself, her Slave,
More wretched than an ancient Villain,
Condemn'd to Drudgery and Tilling;
While all he does upon the By,
She is not bound to Juftifie,
Nor at her proper Coft and Charge
Maintain the Feats he does at large.
Such hideous Sots were those obedient
Old Vaffals to ther Ladies Regent;
To give the Cheats the eldest Hand
In foul Play, by the Laws o'th' Land

For which fo many a legal Cuckhold

;

Has been run down in Courts, and truckl'd, A Law that most unjustly yokes

All Johns of Stiles to Joans of Nokes,

Without diftinction of Degree,

Condition, Age or Quality;

Admits no Pow'r of Revocation,

Nor valuable Confideration,

Nor Writ of Error, nor Reverse

Of Judgment paft for better or worse;