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hours, fair and foftly goes far! fhe fhall

not be married hugger-mugger ; my child

fhall be married according to her quality;

I am not for a ftolen marriage.

But we will talk no more of prelimina-

ries, but come to the thing itfelf; for all

things being fettled, and the appointed

morning come up gets the bridegroom,

and dreffes himfelf in all his gaudy at-

tire.

The bridemaid haftens to the bride’s

chamber, and there finds her wafhed

breathing nothing but effence and jeffa-

mine, and her fine holland fmock ready

to put on; fo that being dreffed in a trice,

fhe appears more like an angel than like

a mortal. She was fcarcely dreffed,

but the bridegroom is coming into her

chamber, and with fubmiffive knees, adores

his earthly deity, and kiffes the lilies of

her white hands, and fips a ambrofial nectar

from her lips, and then conducts her to

the room of ftate, where they both ftand

to welcome their invited guefts.— And

fure this muft yield him much pleafure.

Now things being ready, they take coach,

environed by a great crowd of fpectators,

of which not one of them but muft fay