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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27955	The batchelor's directory being a treatise of the excellence of marriage, of its necessity, and the means to live happy in it : together with an apology for the women against the calumnies of the men.		1694 (1694)	Wing B260; ESTC R16542	89,843	268

it if it was capable of pr●ducing this fruit What better r●ward could I desire for the pains has cost me Some persons nevertheless ha● been willing to persuade me that would be unjust to confine its wh● effect to the conquest of one sing● Man and that it might by runni● through the world gain several ●thers to the Empire of Hyme● Thus I was subdued to the solicitations of making it publick which have been made to me from divers places God grant that I may have no occasion to repent of it nor to apply to my Book what Ovid says with lamentation of some of his Writings Hei mihi quam paucos hac mea dicta movent Be indulgent Reader and forget not the saying of the ancient Sages That 't is easy to find fault but hard to excell Of the Parts of this BOOK PART I. Of the Excellence of Marriage pag 8. PART II. Of the Infamy of Incontinence pag. 60. PART III. Of the Motives that might reasonanably induce men to Marry pag. 83. PART IV. Where those objections which are made against Marriage and the false reasons that are alledged to rest unmarried are answered pag. 163. PART V. Of the means to Marry well and to live happy in Marriage pag. 215. ADVERTISEMENT MIscellanious Letter and Essays on several Subjects Philosophical Moral Historica● Critical Amorous c. 〈◊〉 Prose and Verse Directed t● John Drayden Esq the Honorable George Granvill Esq Walter Moile Esq Mr. Dennis Mr. Congreve and othe● Eminent Men of the Age. B● 〈◊〉 al Gentlemen and Ladies ●ed for Benjamen Bragg ●e White-Heart over agains● ●r-Lane in Fleet-street Of the Excellency of Marriage of its Necessity and the means to live happily in it Together with the Apology of the Women against the Calumnies of the Men. THERE never was a bolder undertaking than that of this Book It s design is to establish an opinion which all Men oppose and to disengage them from an Error which is almost as ancient as the World We say every day a thousand injurious things of Marriage One would have it to be the Sepulchre of Pleasures Another looks upon it as a severe Bondage Even those who speak of it with most moderation cease not to term it a necessary Evil. Behold the error I design to confute On the otherside that Marriage is an excellent thing a happy condition and a Society full of sweetness is what exceeds belief It is even ridiculed and it is notwithstanding the truth which I propose my self to persuade Judge Sir what courage is necessary and what strong assurance one must have in the justice of his Cause to be able to prevent a repulse at the entrance of an attempt tha● is apparently so difficult Is it not here on● may truly affirm Hoc opus hic labor est You know that in effect nothing is more cried down in the World than Marriage People frame to themselves Ideas of it which cause an abhorrence I confess likewise tha● it has long served for a subject of detraction Where is he that has no merry Tale to relate of it or to speak better that has no i● reason to alledge in order to discourage others and to remove himself from it How acceptable is this Dilemma of the Philosopher those persons If thou Marryest I suppos● thy Wife to be either handsome or ugly If she be ugly thou canst never love her if handsome thou wilt be jealous of her Whether one or t'other can one find ou● a severer punishment for thee How agreeable do they find this precept of another When thou art young say that it is too soon to Marry when old that it is too late How this comparison of Theodectes please● them Marriage and Old-Age have this Resemblance to wit that Men equally desire to reach both where they are no sooner arrived but they begin to repent In a word with how much satisfaction do they hear that horrid invective of the most unjust of all men One passes but two good days with a Wife the Wedding-day and the day of her Death She is also good but in two places Vel in Thalamo vel in Tumulo either in her Bridal Bed or in her Grave As little equity as one may have can one observe without passion such vilifying of that fair half of Human-kind to whom it seems as if Nature had given all her Graces in possession The very Gods of our Metamorphosis have been affected with them They have often preferred the pleasure of being captivated under the Empire of our Mortal Goddesses before all the glory of Olympus Is it not surprizing after this that Men should affirm so much ill of them and that they should oppress their innocence with their injuries The contempt which they make of them ought to appear to us so much the more extraordinary as they cannot without them enjoy any satisfaction in life They might in some measure be able to make a shift without us bu● we could ne●e● excuse our selves from then If one believes Herodotus there was Kingdom of Women withou● Men The Amasons but there never was se● a Kingdom of Men witho●● Women Even those who are insolent enough t● blame their defects in publick are often amorous enough to adore their Charms i● private witness he of whom one speak● That ridebat in choro amabat in thoro This false prejudice of the Men again● the Women is that which discourage them so much from Marriage and wha● ought likewise to make me despair of th● happy success of my undertaking if it wa● not the most reasonable of the world But Sir my cause supports it self It is no● a particular one and of little consequence As much abandon'd as it is notwithstanding the most general and important caus● that ever was since it is at the sam● time the cause of God and Man of Heaven and Earth of Nature an● Grace of States and Families of the Church Militant and Church Triumphant May not one affirm in effect tha● all these different Subjects have an interest equally sensible in Marriage Is it not the ordinary Channel to give Chosen Vessels to God Faithfull ones t● the Church Members to the State Children to Families and to people Heaven and Earth with inhabitants What would become of the World without Marriage What would become of all Human-kind 'T is certain that it would soon be at an end and with it all our Interests This consideration animates my Courage and makes me even hope that in spight of the infatuation of Men and their bloudy Criticks against Marriage God will enable me to support its sacred rights and to convince them that in the bottom this of all conditions of life is most agreeable to them As to what remains I cannot make the Apology of Marriage without making that of this lovely Sex for whom all sensible men ought to have a veneration since by relation to Marriage it self it is the soundest and most considerable part I was