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 child already,) and the man is no less ambitious to let his kindred see his nice choice.———And let us suppose the young man should have a mind to give his wife an airing in the country, marry, I think it is a pleasure to him to take a frisk in the country for a month or two, and then to have the four bells in the steeple set a jingling for joy, to summon the inhabitants of the village, to stare at the bride and bridegroom.

And when they have been grandly entertained by one cousin, to make a tour to another, and there to have all the welcomes renewed again, must needs be a marvellous pleasure to them both, and more especially to the husband, to see his wife so caressed and made much of among his friends. But perhaps, after all this great pleasure, there is a sad complaint that the young woman is not yet with child.

This much redounds to the young man’s disgrace, and is a very great damp to the pleasures of matrimony.—But hold! not so fast, my friend, pray let all things be well considered, and the hare’s foot set against the goose’s giblets, for if there be no children there is less charge. And yet the pleasures of the bed are stil_ the same. They live in the constant use of the means, and who can tell what may come of it. Rome was not built in one day. I doubt not but it is an allay