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Rh for this thing to Day, and for that thing co Morrow; to change Likings for Loathings, and to tand Withing and Hankering at a Venture, how is it poible for any Man to be at Reft in this Fluctuant Wandering Humour and Opinion? There's no fitting of a Gown to a Body that's of One Size when you take Meaure of it, and of another when you come to put it on. ‘Tis the very ame Cae wjth a Heart that is not True to it elf. And upon the whole Matter, Men of this Levity are Condemn'd to the Miery of Living and Dying Uneay.

Arrying and Hanging, they ay go by Detiny, and the Blade had this Thought in his Head perhaps, that Defir’d the Prayers of the Congregation, when he was upon the very Point of Matrimony. His Friends gave Him no Anwer it eems, which put him upon Reaoning the Matter with them. Why Gentlemen, (ays he) if there had been but a Snick-up in the Cae, you'd have cry'd the Lord Bles ye Sir; and there's more Danger in Marrying I hope, then there is in Sneezing.