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Rh And make them every afternoon Forbear their tea, or drink it soon; That, ere to bed they venture up, They may discharge it every sup; If not, they must in evil plight Be often forc'd to rise at night. Keep them to wholesome food confin'd, Nor let them taste what causes wind: 'Tis this the sage of Samos means, Forbidding his disciples beans. O! think what evils must ensue; Miss Moll the jade will burn it blue: And, when she once has got the art, She cannot help it for her heart; But out it flies, ev'n when she meets Her bridegroom in the wedding-sheets. Carminative and diuretick Will damp all passion sympathetick: And Love such nicety requires, One blast will put out all his fires. Since husbands get behind the scene, The wife should study to be clean; Nor give the smallest room to guess The time when wants of nature press; But after marriage practise more Decorum than she did before; To keep her spouse deluded still, And make him fancy what she will. In bed we left the married pair: 'Tis time to show how things went there. Strephon, who had been often told That fortune still assists the bold, Resolv'd to make the first attack; But Chloe drove him fiercely back. How