THAT Minds are united as well as the Body; and the

HAT alliance may be said to have a double tie, where

union will have all its strength, when both the links are in perfection together.

does not appear essential that, in forming Matrimo

should on a parity

of Wealth; but that in Disposition and Manners they should be alike. Chastity and Modesty form the best dowry a parent can bestow.

Jealousy their dawn of Love o'ercast,

their with Strife;

Each season look'd delightful as it past,
To the fond Husband and the faithful Wife.
Beyond the lowly vale of shepherd life
They never roam'd! secure beneath the storm
Which in Ambition's lofty land is rife,

Where Peace and Love are canker'd by the worm
Of Pride, each bud of Joy industrious to deform.

A

SOMETHING, light as air—a look,
A word unkind or wrongly taken-
Oh! Love, that tempests never shook,

A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
And ruder words will soon rush in
To spread the breach that words begin;
And Eyes forget the gentle ray
They wore in Courtship's smiling day
And Voices lose the tone that shed
A tenderness round all they said;
Till fast declining, one by one,
The sweetnesses of Love are gone,
And Hearts, so lately mingled, seem
Like broken clouds,-or like the stream,
That smiling left the Mountain's brow,

As though its waters ne'er could sever,
Yet, ere it reach the plain below,

Breaks into Floods, that part for ever.

FROM

ROM that day forth, in Peace and joyous Bliss
They liv'd together long without debate;

Ne private Jarre, ne spite of Enemies,

Could shake the safe assurance of their state.

MEN

EN that marry Women very much superior to themselves, are not so truly Husbands to their Wives, as they are unawares made Slaves to their Portions.

Marriage. Martial.

PERPETUAL Harmony their bed attend,

And Venus still the well-match'd pair befriend! May she, when Time has sunk him into years, Love her old man, and cherish his white hairs; Nor he perceive her Charms thro' age decay, But think each happy sun his Bridal day!

is a less breach of Wedlock to part, with wise and

that Mystery of Joy and Union with a polluting sadness and perpetual distemper.

Marriage. Shakespeare.

THY Husband is thy Lord, thy life, thy keeper,

TH

Thy head, thy Sovereign: one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance: commits his body

To painful labour, both by sea and land;

To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe,
And craves no other Tribute at thy hands,
But Love, fair Looks, and true Obedience;
Too little Payment for so great a Debt.

ARRIAGE is a desperate thing: the Frogs in Æsop

Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again.

THE

Marriage. — Swift.

HE reason why so few Marriages are happy, is because young Ladies spend their time in making Nets, not in making Cages.

I

Marriage.

HAPPY in this, she is not yet so old,

But she may learn; and happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn ;
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle Spirit
Commits itself to yours, to be directed.

PITY from my heart the unhappy Man who has a bad Wife. She is Shackles on his feet, a Palsy to his hands, a Burden on his shoulder, Smoke to his eyes, Vinegar to his teeth, a Thorn to his side, a Dagger to his heart.

E

OF earthly goods, the best is a good Wife;
A bad, the bitterest Curse of human life.

Marriage. Massillon.

VERY effort is made in forming Matrimonial Alliances to reconcile matters relating to Fortune, but very little is paid to the Congeniality of Dispositions, or to the Accordance of Hearts.

Marriage. - Milton.

H OF human offspring, sole propriety

AIL Wedded Love, mysterious law, true source

In Paradise of all things common else.

By thee adult'rous Lust was driven from men
Among the bestial herds to range; by thee
Founded in Reason, loyal, just, and pure,
Relations dear, and all the Charities

Of Father, Son, and Brother first were known.

Marriage. Shakespeare.

ARRIAGE is a matter of more worth

M Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

For what is Wedlock forced, but a Hell,
An age of Discord and continual Strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth forth Bliss,
And is a pattern of Celestial Peace.

IF

Idleness be the root of all Evil, then Matrimony's good for something, for it sets many a poor Woman to

work.

REASON, my son,

Should choose himself a Wife; but as good reason,
The Father (all whose joy is nothing else
But fair Posterity) should hold some counsel
In such a business.

Marriage. Shakespeare.

SUCH duty as the Subject owes the Prince,

Even such a Woman oweth to her Husband:
And, when she's froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,

What is she but a foul contending Rebel?
And graceless Traitor to her loving lord?
Marriage. Fuller.

FIRST get an absolute Conquest over thyself, and then

thou wilt easily govern thy Wife.

ET here and there we grant a gentle Bride,

Unlike the rest that double human care,
Fond to relieve, or resolute to share :

Happy the Man whom thus his stars advance!
The Curse is general, but the Blessing chance.

Marriage. Sir Walter Raleigh.

best time for Marriage will be towards thirty, for

Tas the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to

govern a Wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred: for thereby thy Posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy Name.

W Is it excepted I should know no secrets

ITHIN the bond of Marriage, tell me, Brutus,

That appertain to you? Am I yourself
But, as it were, on sort, or limitation;

To keep with you at Meals, comfort your bed,

And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs Of your good Pleasure? If it be no more,

Portia is Brutus' Harlot, not his Wife.

Martyrdom. Colton.

HE that dies a Martyr, proves that he was not a K.narą

but by no means that he was not a Fool.

TWO

VO things are necessary to a modern Martyr,-some to pity, and some to persecute, some to regret, and some to roast him.

IT is not only paying wages, and giving commands, that

constitutes a Master of a Family; but Prudence, equal behaviour, with a readiness to protect and cherish them, is what entitle a man to that character in their very Hearts and Sentiments.

IF thou art a Master, be sometimes Blind; if a Servant,

sometimes

Means and Conceptions.— Colton.

SOME

OME men possess Means that are great, but fritter them away in the execution of Conceptions that are little; and there are others who can form great Conceptions, but who attempt to carry them into Execution with little Means. These two descriptions of men might succeed if united, but as they are usually kept asunder by Jealousy, both fail. It is a rare thing to find a combination of great Means and of great Conceptions in one Mind.

Mediocrity.- La Rochefoucauld.

MINDS of moderate Calibre ordinarily condemn every thing which is beyond their range.