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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27966	The Bachelor'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.		1696 (1696)	Wing B261; ESTC R40746	88,169	301

and Family I extreamly honour This particular victor● is the single end I proposed to myself in the composition of this piec● And how much reason should I ha●● to bless it if it was capable of producing this fruit What better reward could I desire for the pains 〈◊〉 has cost me Some persons nevertheless have been willing to persuade me that 〈◊〉 would be unjust to confine its who● effect to the conquest of one sing● Man and that it might by running through the world gain several others 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 Incontinehce 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 res● unmarried are answered pag. 163 PART V. Of the means to Marry well and to live happy in Marriage pag. 215 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 antient as the World We say every day a thousand injurious things of Marriage One ●ould have it to be the Sepulchre of Pleaures Another looks upon it as a severe Bonlage Even those who speak of it with most moderation cease not to term it a necessary Evil. Behold the error I design to con●ute On the otherside that Marriage is an excellent thing a happy condition and a So●●ety full of sweetness is what exceeds belief 〈◊〉 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 th●● is apparently so difficult Is it not here 〈◊〉 may truly affirm Hoc opus hic lab●● est You know that in effect nothing is more c●●●ed down in the World than Marriage P●●ple frame to themselves Ideas of it wh●●● cause an abhorrence I confess likewise t●●● it has long served for a subject of detract●●● Where is he that has no merry Tale to 〈◊〉 late of it or to speak better that has no reason to alledge in order to discourage oth●● and to remove himself from it How acceptable is this Dilemma of the Philosopher 〈◊〉 those persons If thou Marryest I sup●●● thy Wife to be either handsome or 〈◊〉 If she be ugly thou canst never love 〈◊〉 if handsome thou wilt be jealous of 〈◊〉 Whether one or t'other can one find 〈◊〉 a severer punishment for thee How ag●●able do they find this precept of anoth●● When thou art young say that it is too 〈◊〉 to Marry when old that it is too 〈◊〉 How this comparison of Theodectes pl●●● them Marriage and Old-Age have 〈◊〉 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 vil●fying 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 Goddess's 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 never excuse our selves from them If one believes Herodotus there was 〈◊〉 Kingdom of Women without Men The Amasons but there never was se● a Kingdom of Men without Women Even those who are insolent enough 〈◊〉 blame their defects in publick are often 〈◊〉 morous enough to adore their Charms 〈◊〉 private witness he of whom one speak That ridebat in choro amabat in th●re This false prejudice of the Men against the Women is that which discourage● them so much from Marriage and wh●● ought likewise to make me despair of t●● happy success of my undertaking if it w●● not the most reasonable of the world Bu●● Sir my cause supports it self It is 〈◊〉 a particular one and of little consequence● As much abandon'd as it is notwithstanding the most general and important cau●● that ever was since it is at the sa●● time the cause of God and Man 〈◊〉 Heaven and Earth of Nature a●● Grace of States and Families of t●● Church Militant and Church Triumphant May not one affirm in effect th●● 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 to 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 blou●y Criticks against Marriage God will enable me to support its sacred rights and to convince them that in the bottom his of all conditions of life is most agreeable to them As to what remains I cannot make the Apology of Marriage without making that if this lovely Sex for whom all sensible men ought to have a veneration since 〈◊〉 relation to Marriage it self it is the ●●undest and most considerable part I ●as always pleased to justifie the Women against the Calumnies of the Men but 〈◊〉 propose to my self to do it in this peice after a particular manner I owe to