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6 ing else but the purple violet, the blushing rose, and the lily whiteness; the phoenix nest is not so perfumed as she; and to describe her person, the riches of Mexico and Peru are far too mean to stand in competition with her: nay, all the dazzling jewels of the East must give way to her superior lustre. But when they have drank of the richest wine, to recompence him for all his pains and charges, his mistress condescends to treat him, by letting him taste the charming cherries of her coral lips, and fuck from thence the fragrant breath that far exceeds Arabia's rich perfume; -which wraps him in such pleasure, that the young spark imagines he is in heaven. And if the very way to matrimony be thus paved with delight, what most the end of it be? And truly were it not so, do you think the country clown would plough and harrow, yet sling away his fickle and fail for the love of Amarillis ? Or, would the tradesman leave his shop but for the pleasures that attend it? It is this makes the apprentice court in hugger-mugger, and values not the loss of his freedom, when once captivated by the fair Sufannah's bright eyes! So mightily transporting are the pleasures of wooing, above any other pleasures in the world.

But if the pleasures of Wooning are so very great, then what are the pleasures of