Why should not Females under Wedlock tyes, Participate with what the Man Enjoys? Man's Second-self must have her share in Mirth A Freedom, which is right to her by Birth: If _Fortune's_ Bounty has encreased her Store, Her _Husband's_ Love to her shou'd be the more; No Cost or Care too much for such a Wife, Whose Vertuous Charms adds Pleasure to the Life: Such _Comforts_ on a married Life depend, There's nothing like a Loving Bosom-Friend. If _Husband's_ Stock is wasted by mischance, A careful Wife will soon the same advance. _Answer to the Ninth Mock Comfort._ The Man more often is the cause of Loss, By Drinking, Whoring or some Earthly Cross; Then patient Wife, who yet must bear the Blame, And hide the cause of his notorous Shame; And many times the Sons and Daughters too, Act just the same they see their Father do: And therefore if they chance to go astray, The Father pointed out the crooked way; And yet the Crosses in a married Life Are all imputed to a Tender Wife: And notwithstanding all this knavish Art, It sooner breaks the _Wife's_ than _Husband's_ Heart. _Answer to the Tenth Mock Comfort._ I wonder where this spiteful Author finds such wanton Women, with such lustful Minds; Unless he speaks by knowledg of his own, Whose Lewdness is the Scandal of the Town; If so, he's not mistaken in his Mark, For Joan's _as good as_ Lady _in the Dark_: But 'tis unjust to tax all Womankind, With Vices proper to one single mind. If some are bad, I only this shall say, I pity those that wed with such as they. _Answer to the Eleventh Mock Comfort._ This by Experience, as I said before, You speak because you married such a Wh----re; The words themselves as plain, as plain can be Describe your self, that you are only He, The very Actions with your cheating Bride, In lustful Sport, when you lay by her side; How by degrees she did the Fool deceive With fained Blushes make you then believe Her Virgin Fort well fortify'd within, Free from Attacks of such a pleasing Sin: What e'er the Picture wants of being true, Is, that it looks not so deform'd as you. _Answer to the Twelfth Mock Comfort._