The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 14
The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 14
Alexander Chalmers
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10. Thus Venus sports: the rich, the base, Unlike in fortune and in face, To disagreeing love provokes ; When cruelly jocose, She ties the fatal noose, And binds unequals to the brazen yokes. CREECH. It is very usual for those who have been severe upon marriage, in some part or other of their lives, to enter into the fraternity which they have ridi- culed, and to see their raillery return upon their own heads. I scarce ever knew a woman-hater that did not, sooner or later, pay for it. Marriage,... which is a blessing to another man, falls upon such an one as a judgment. Mr. Congreve's Old Bachelor is set forth to us with much wit and humour, as an ex- ample of this kind. In short, those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex in ge- neral, very often make an honourable amends, by choosing one of the most worthless persons of it for a companion and yoke-fellow. Hymen takes his revenge in kind on those who turn his mysteries into ridicule. My friend Will Honeycomb, who was so un- mercifully witty upon the women in a couple of letters, which I lately communicated to the public, has given the ladies ample satisfaction by marrying a farmer's daughter; a piece of news which came VOL.
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