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 this must be another pleasure, for now the bridegroom unwilling to pay the money for nothing, gets up and dances to the music; and this must be a great pleasure, for all the senses are pleased at once.

Now the next day is spent in being treated by the bridemen at a tavern; and there can be now room for nothing but pleasure.

The pleasures of the wedding being over — how, over did I say? I beg your pardon, they are so far from being over, that thy continue while they live together. And therefore I should say, being thus begun, they are attended by another pleasure, and that is housekeeping; now time begins to jog the bridegroom by the elbow, and tell him he ought to mind his business; for bags will soon grow empty unless filled again. — And what is his business now, but the business of housekeeping, and to get all things for it. "He that goes a borrowing," as the old proverb says, "goes a sorrowing." And sure the woman is in an ill condition who is obliged to borrow every thing she wants.