The Marriage-hater here is forc'd to own, The many Comforts which doth Wedlock Crown. But strives to mix it with such Cares and Toil, As if curs'd Malice cou'd such Blessings spoil. Makes Charges frightful on that very score, As if Mankind should ne'er encrease no more; Nay, _Atheist_-like, he makes it ten times worse, And calls _God's Blessings_ nothing but a Curse: Our Sons are Sots, and all our Daughters Whores, Because we keep the Woolf just from the Doors: Was ever Man so void of Sense and Shame, As thus against all Reason to exclaim? As if a Wife her Kindness to impart, Shou'd teaze her Husband as to break his Heart: This is such Stuff as ne'er was heard before, But hope the like again shall see no more. _Answer to the Fifth Mock Comfort._ I here agree with this, my Rhiming Foe, And own 'tis Folly when the Case is so; For whatsoe'er the cunning Jilt pretend To her Old Husband, yet she'll have Her Friend; She'll coax the Dotard when his Bags are full, Yet even then graft _Horns_ upon his Skull, Makes him a Beggar to enrich her _Cull_: She seems most fond, till she gets all the _Pence_, And then with Bag and Baggage marches thence; She leaves the Fool without one single _Cross_, To sit, lamenting for his fatal _Loss_. _Answer to the Sixth Mock Comfort._ But here I differ from the _Poet's_ Thought, Who says, A _Scold as even good for nought_; For, like _Job's_ Wife, she will Man's Patience try, And bring Repentance too, before he die: Then who'd live single, if a Scolding Wife Works such great Wonders in a Husband's Life? _Answer to the Seventh Mock Comfort._ No modest Woman will disdain her Spouse, Because he seldom peeps into her House; Since Age and Sickness doth the Sport prevent, She'll exercise her Patience with Content: For where all's gone, the _Queen_ must lose Her _Right_, So must a Wife the Pleasure of the Night. A Loving Woman, puts up those Defects, And gives her Husband Honour and Respect; Like Pious _Sarah_, serve him like a _Lord_; Obeys in all things, which do's Peace afford: Their Children too add Pleasure to their Lives! Thus Men are Bless'd, who marry Virtuous Wives. _Answer to the Eighth Mock Comfort._