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 without it, loses one of the chiefest pleasures that belong to it. So that, in order to treat of the pleasures of matrimony, I find it necessary to begin with wooing.

Wooing conſists in a man's pitching upon upon some object of his affections, of the female sex; and it is a comfort there are more maids than maukins, that he is not confined in his choice; for if one will not, another will. Well, having fixed upon the desired she, and found out her habitation, with what her fortune is; he next equips himself as fine as the taylor and semstress can make him, and prepares for his address; and it is a pleasure to him to be thus rigged, to win his fair mistress. Now, whether the girls have father or mother, uncle or aunt, there's none. but will admit him to pay a visit to his mistress when he comes in the way of matrimony. But now what a pleasure it is to be admitted to a kiss, and a gracious smile from his mistress. After that he has just shewed himself, and talked idly to her about half an hour, what a pleasure is it to him, at his departure, to oblige her maid with the King's picture, which causes her to give such a character of him, especially if the picture happens to be set in gold, as he begets in the young woman an affection towards him; which, if he comes to know at the second meeting, it is inpossible to de