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10 the bonds of wedlock, as the horse doth unto the battle,

2. No no, no holding back, but John Sloth and Maggy Idle must be married, even because they have no means but meanness, no Teacher but T—l's, no wit but wickedness, no wealth but wanton folly: and poor pride is all their possession, antiquity only excepted.

3. For he is the honourable laird of Sluggardfield’s son, and she is the daughter of Slimpylabour.

4. Behold he goeth with his garters unbound, his bosom bare, and both his bands holding up bis breeches.

5. Up gets Maggy in the morning, against the hoar of nine, whether it be day-light or not, but not without the power of a pearser, for she covers herself with her petticoat, and runs to the dung hill as a soldier to his arms, when alarmed by the drum.

6. This is the character of two, which may be multiplied into millions, two by two, that fall into misery by matrimony, and are deadly wounded by the plague of poverty, for want of a virtuous proceeding in themselves.

7. Their great care is once to be firmly married, and then all their cares are drowned in the sleep of lust, and when they awake, the flame of calf-love is quite out; then they look