The Levellers: A Dialogue Between Two Young Ladies, Concerning Matrimony, Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing Single PersonsAnonymous
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The Levellers: A Dialogue Between Two Young Ladies, Concerning Matrimony, Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing Single Persons
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We will leave the Doctor and Mrs. _Anne_ hard at Work on the Anvil of
Courtships, whilst the old Woman and her Husband are getting Supper
ready, which they were so long about, that it grew late, and Mrs. _Anne_
was just going: The Doctor, you may be sure, intreated her to stay, and
the old Man and Woman solicited very hard on the same Account, telling
the Lady, that they had nothing worthy of her Acceptance, but the Honour
she would do them, now they had a great Doctor of the Church at their
House, would be very great. In short, they argued so much, that Mrs.
_Anne_ was at length prevailed upon to stay; the old Man whispers the
Doctor, that he had kept Supper back on Purpose that he might have the
more of the young Lady's Company, and therefore advised him to make the
best Use of his Time. Certainly, never any young Lady made her Lover so
happy at the first Interview; to Work goes the Doctor, he courts like a
Dragon; with an irresistible Fury he lets fly whole Vollies of bombaste
Rhetorick at her Head, enough to beat a poor Country Girl's Brains out;
no Stone did he leave unturned, but persists in his Courtship, till
interrupted by the old Man's Bringing in the Supper, which, we may
imagine, could not be less than a couple of Cocks with Bacon, and it is
well, if the Fowls did not come out of the Squire's Coop, as well as the
Cloaths out of his Daughter's Wardrobe.
Down sits the Doctor, having first placed Mrs. _Anne_ at the upper End
of the Table, and, having said a short Grace, he desired the old Couple
to sit down, as did also Mrs. _Anne_; but they refused it, saying, They
should not be so impudent as to set at Table Chick by Chowle with a
great Doctor of the Church, and their Mrs. _Anne_, who agreed with the
Doctor to make them both sit down, which at last they did, in Conformity
to the Church and their Mistress; and so they all fell heartily to
Pecking till they had consumed the whole Provision.
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The Levellers: A Dialogue Between Two Young Ladies, Concerning Matrimony, Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing Single Persons — John Shaqi
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