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 :Which is if you like it—the way to get married.

Now lovers attend, and I hope there’s here!
 * Don’t trifle too long about this thing that,

But when you are bent on an object so ,
 * Let prudence direct you, and mind you’re at:

To love, and be lov’d, is the highest of ,
 * Then be not, I beg, by indifference ,

Let honour and truth all your actions ,
 * Which is, if you like it—the way to married.

Tho’ money may sometimes be deem’d well,
 * Yet riches can never true pleasures ;

’Tis love, and love only, each care can ;
 * ’Tis love, and love only, that the heart!

Then make it your study to follow my ,
 * All you who live single, and too long tarried,

Court with zeal, like true lovers, as soon you can,
 * Which is, if you like it—the way to married.