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 The doctor advised the husband to go into the country, and stay with his uncle for a fortnight, and then return home; but he ordered it so that the last day's journey might be an easy one; and the wife had notice of his coming, and 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 rest a while. Then, being both awake, he laid his hand upon the mount of Venus, and talked to her all the soft things which love could dictate to him; and when he by such amorous discourse 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 expectation; 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 that for a man thus to give his