Hymen's Recruiting-sergeant: Or the New Matrimonial Tat-too for Old Bachelors |
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angel arms beauty beloved wife BEQUEST OF EVERT black eyes blessings blest BLISS OF MATRIMONY blooming celibacy charm cheeks citizen Bachelor conjugal bliss dear Bachelors DEAR GENTLES Delia delight Early Marriages earth EVERT JANSEN WENDELL evil expensive eyes and bro fair feel felicities Florio fond parent gentleman girl Glorious youth go into company harlot's hear heart helpmate honour hour industry innocence ken heads kings and conquerors kiss Ladies laugh life's lips little prattlers look Lord loving wife lust M. L. WEEMS maid Maintain a wife married matches mind ne'er nectar negro ning OLD BACHELORS pany Paradise passion pleasure poor Portsmouth precious preserves youth raise up soldiers raptures republicans sake sigh smile Solomon SONG sparkling sweeten sweetest tender bosom thee tis population tongue verily virtue voice wedlock wedlock's weltering in blood wife and children wish-'tis woman he loves wretched young Bachelor
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Page 16 - Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers, We, who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know, That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below.
Page 39 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Page 16 - Through walks grown with woodbines as often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolic and play : How pleasing their sport is ! The wanton ones see, And borrow their looks from my Jessy and me.
Page 50 - Enraptur'd still to call thee mine, To call thee mine for life, I glory in the sacred ties, Which modern wits and fools despise, Of Husband and of Wife. One mutual flame inspires our bliss ; The...
Page 51 - tis all for thee ; Hast thou a wish ? — 'tis all for me ; So soft our moments move, That angels look with ardent gaze, Well pleased to see our happy days, And bid us live — and love. If cares arise — and cares will come— Thy bosom is my softest home, I'll lull me there to rest ; And is there aught disturbs my fair?
Page 33 - I'll lay thee in a wilderness of sweets ; Whatever to the sense can grateful be I have collected there 1 want but thee. My husband's gone a journey far away, Much gold he took abroad, and long will stay, He named for his return a distant day.
Page 51 - Hast thou a wish, tis all for me, So soft our moments move, That angels look with ardent gaze, Well pleas'd to see our happy days, And bid us live - and love. If cares arise (and cares will come) Thy bosom is my softest home, I lull me there to rest; And is there aught disturbs my fair, I bid her sigh out all her care, And lose it in my breast.
Page 33 - Who with curs'd charms lures the unwary in, And sooths with flattery their souls to sin. " Once from my window as I cast mine eye On those that pass'd in giddy numbers by, A youth among the foolish youths I spy'd, Who took not sacred Wisdom for his guide. " Just as the sun withdrew his cooler light, And evening soft led on the shades of night, He stole in covert twilight to his fate, And...
Page 33 - Grave on the living tablet of thy heart ; And all the wholesome precepts that I give, Observe with strictest reverence, and live. " Let all thy homage be to Wisdom paid, Seek her protection, and implore her aid ; That she may keep thy soul from harm secure, And turn thy footsteps from the harlot's door, Who with curs'd charms lures the unwary in, And soothes with flattery their souls to sin.
Page 14 - Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom of God. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.