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 P, and to Church together with my Wife, to ſee married this Morning to ; on both Sides mighty genteel People, and their Gueſts, all except ourſelves, ſuch as they do call Carriage-Company. , in a Dreſs of White Satin, and Orange Flowers in her Hair, very pretty and demure, and, wearing a Sky-Blue Coat, Crimſon Velvet Waiſtcoat, Yellow Moleſkin Trowſers, and Japanned Boots; with Lavender Kid Gloves, and a Carbuncle in his Shirt-Front, a great Buck. and every Man of us with great White Favours at our Breaſts, mighty conſpicuous and, methought, abſurd, the Things ſerving neither for Uſe nor Ornament. But to ſee how grand were old fat and, and how more grand were their fat Wives, and how fine and ſerious they looked and how high they carried their Notes! And when the Ring was put on Finger ( firſt having fumbled for it in the wrong Pocket), her Mother did weep, and, falling for ſupport on, igh overthrew him. But the pretty modeſt Brideſmaids did moſt of all take me; which my Wife obſerving, I ſaw, did trouble her. The Ceremony over, and the Fees paid, and the Bride kiſſed by ſome of the old Gentlemen, we to old to Breakfaſt, where what  do call a Grand Spread, very fine both for Show and Meats, every Diſh ornamented with Flowers