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PLEASURES OF MATRIMONY

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It is a Strange thing, that people should talk of the fifteen comforts or pleasures of Matrimony, as if they could be numbered; where as I affirm, that the pleasures of Matrimony are numberless. No wonder then there is nothing more desired or coveted than Matrimony, and that it has been in such high esteem among all nations, from the beginning of the world. It is true there has been a clamour against it; and many that condemn it, and cry it down, mistake comforts for discomforts.

And yet even those who complain the most against Matrimony will allow that there are fifteen çomforts in it; and, if so, though there were no more, which yet I will not grant, who, that is not a madman, would not marry to enjoy. fifteen such comforts as all the world cannot afford him besides? But what will such men say to wooing? I own, indeed, it is not matrimony itself, but it is the highway to it; and he that marries