~B6 The Hiflory of S AMPS 0 N. The welcome travellers: The parents pains Ate n?w. rewarded w_ith their i>ons befi: pleafure : The V1rgm comes·, hts eyes can find noleifure -. To own another object : O, the greeting ' Th' impatient Lovers had at their firfi: meeting! The lover fpeaks; fhe anfwers; he replies; She lllufhes~ he demandeth; fhe denies ; He pleads affeCtion ; fhe doubts ; he fues For nuptial iove; fhe quefiions; he renews His earnefl fuit : importunes; fhe relents; He mufl have no denial ; fhe confents ; · They pafs their mutaalloves : theif joyned hands Are equal earnefls of the nuptial bands : ' Th~ Parents are.agreed; all parties p1eas'd; The day's fet down; the Lovers hearts are eas'd; Nothing difp.ld.fes now, but the long fi:ay Betwixt th' appointment, and tche Marriage day. Meditat. 8. ·,_,....,l 'Is to0 fevere a cenfure : Ifthe Son · Take him a wife ; the marriage fairly done, · Without confent ofParents ( who perchance . Had rais~d his higher price, knew w)rere t. advance His better'd fortunes to one hundred more) He lives a Fornicator; fhe, ~Whore: Too hard a cenfure ! And it feems to me, The Parent's mofl delinquent of the three : What if the hetter minded Son do aim At worth? What if rare vertues do inflame His rapt affettion ? Wnat if the condition Ofan admir'd, and dainty difpofition Hath won his foul? whereas his covetous Father Finds her Gold light, and recommends him, rathert T' an old worn Widow , whofe more weighty purfe ' Is fiH'd with Gold) and w·ith the Orphans curfe 1 · 'fhe
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