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And yet even thofe who complain the

againft matrimony will allow that

are fifteen comforts in it and if to,

there were no more, which yet I

not grant, who, that is not a madman,

not marry to enjoy fifteen fuch

as all the world cannot afford

befides ? But what will fucn men lay

wooing? I own indeed, it is not ma-

ony itfelf but it is the highway to it,

he that marries without it lofes one

the chiefeft pleafures that belong to it.

that in order to reat of the pleafures

Matrimony, I find it neceffary to begin

Wooing.

Wooing confifts in a man’s pitching

on fome object of his affections of the

; and it is a comfort there are

maids than mankind, that he is not

confined in his choice ; for if one will not,

will Well having fixed upon

defired fhe and found out her habi-

with what her fortune is! he

equips himfelf as fine as the tailor

can make and pre-

for is addrefs; and it is a pleafure

him thus rigged, to win his fair

Now, whether the girls have