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16 have the four bells in the steeple set a jing- Jing for joy, to summons the inhabitants of the village to come and 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 so much of, among his friends.

But, perhaps, after all this great pleasure, there is a sad complaint, that the young woman is not with child. This much redounds to the young man's disgrace, and is a very great damp to the pleasures of matrimony. Bat 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 the less charge. And yet the pleasures of the bed are full the fame; and as they live in the constant use of the means, who can tell what may come of it? Rome was not built in one day. I doubt not but it is an allay to many a one's nosturnal pleasures, to think up in the charge he is bringing upon himself, by satisfying a little amorous itch; but when he hath d ne it, and done it, and done it again, and finds there is no danger, then he falls to it without fear or wits.