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 the last day’s journey might be an easy one; and the wife had notice of his coming, she dressed herself in all the gaiety she could devise; and had a good supper of light digestion, ready to put on the table at his arrival; exposing to his view her fine ivory neck and lily bosom bare. And three hours after supper she counselled him to bed, there to take his rest awhile. Then being both awake, he laid his hand on the mount of Venus, and talked to her all the soft things which love could dictate to him; and when he by such amorous discourses, had wrought his spirits up to the highest pitch, then to fall on, and feast himself with love’s delightful dainties. In short, the doctor’s counsel was observed to a nicety, and the success answered their expectations: and not themselves alone, but others too have found its efficacious effects.

Now tell me all ye enemies to Marriage, what pleasure can a man imagine is greater than for a man thus to give his wife and himself a secret and mutual satisfaction.

You will be apt to say, are these all the pleasures of matrimony? I answer, No; not one tenth part of them;—but my design is to delight, not to surfeit you.