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28 A PANEGYRICK Afarriage, which is but the higheft Advance and Improvement of Friendfhip in the clofeft Bond of Union. Good God! What frequent Divorces, or worfe Mifchief, would oft fadly 2s to paſs over light Occaſions of Quarrel with Laughing, Jefting, Diffembling, and fuch like Playing the Fool? Nay, how few Matches would go forward, if the hafty Lover did but firt know how many little Tricks of Lu and Wantonnefs (and perhaps more grofs Failings) his Coy and feemingly Bafhful Miſtreſs had oft before been guilty of? And how fewer Marriages, when confummated, would continue happy, if the Husband were not either fottifhly infenfible of, or did not purpofely wink at and pafs over the Lightnefs and Forwardnefs of his Good-natur’'d Wife? This Peace and Quietnefs is owing to my Management, for there would otherwiſe be continual Jarrs, and Broils, and Mad Doings, if want of Wit only did not at the fame time make a contented Cuckold and a fHiil Houfe ; if the Cuckow Sing at the Back-door, the unthinking Cornute takes notice of the unlucky Omen of other Egos being laid in his own Neſt, but laughs it over, [F1c. X.] kiffes his Dear Spoufe, and all is well. And indeed it is much better patiently to be fuch a hen-peck’d Frigot, than alway to be wrack’d and tortur'd with the grating Surmifes of Sufpicion and Jealoufie. In fine, there is no one Society, no one Relation Men ftand in, would be comfortable,, lc «Le TZE EZZ LE ZT ZR ZT E
