for this thing to Day, and for that thing co Morrow; to change Likings for Loathings, and to ſtand Withing and Hankering at a Venture, how is it poſſible for any Man to be at Reft in this Fluctuant Wandering Humour and Opinion? There's no fitting of a Gown to a Body that's of One Size when you take Meaſure of it, and of another when you come to put it on. ‘Tis the very ſame Caſe wjth a Heart that is not True to it ſelf. And upon the whole Matter, Men of this Levity are Condemn'd to the Miſery of Living and Dying Uneaſy.
Fab. CCCCXXVI.
A Young Fellow about to Marry.
MArrying and Hanging, they ſay go by Deſtiny, and the Blade had this Thought in his Head perhaps, that Defir’d the Prayers of the Congregation, when he was upon the very Point of Matrimony. His Friends gave Him no Anſwer it ſeems, which put him upon Reaſoning the Matter with them. Why Gentlemen, (ſays he) if there had been but a Snick-up in the Caſe, you'd have cry'd the Lord Bleſs ye Sir; and there's more Danger in Marrying I hope, then there is in Sneezing.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
Many a Man runs a greater Rifque in a Wife, then the World is aware of. The Whimſical Freak of this Young Bantering Spark, would have made no Ill Ingredient into a Wiſe and a Sober Man's Litany; and though it looks like a Jeſt, there is ſomewhat in't yet that may be worth a thinking Man’s Earneſt. But there will need no more then the Experience of thoſe that have Try’d the Circumſtances of this Bleſſed State, to Recommend the Morality of the Alluſion, to the Thought of others, that are not yet Enter'd into the Matrimonial Nooſe.
Fab.
