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Under this Disappointment, his Continence betrayed the Occasion of his Marriage; for, as above, he had no less than five Children by her, which, her Fortune being not extraordinary, ruined the Fortunes of his first Children, who he pretended to have so much Concern for. This was the End of Matrimonial Whoring with Mr. B———. And now he is ashamed to talk publickly of his own Shame, as well the Reasons of his Marriage, as the Management of it, in which he has indeed this Advantage of the Satyr, that his Discoveries are too gross to be described, as his Language is to be repeated; so he must pass unreproved for the Reasons given in Page 9.
I meet with so many of these Sorts of lewd Marriages, that I can hardly refrain giving a List of them, saving, that they come so near home, and the Persons will so necessarily be pointed out by the Descriptions, that I am loth to draw Pictures that every Body must know. But something must be said to shew the Variety.
There lived an eminent City Gentleman, if that Language may be allowed to be good in Heraldry, not a Mile from St. Mary A———, who having lost a good Wife, went a Fortune-hunting for another; but openly declared, he must have an additional Qualification too, viz. she must be pass'd Children.
N. B. He had a House full of Children already, and but a moderate Fortune; so he pretended to marry again, to better the Fortunes of his Children.
An intimate grave Friend of his, and a real Friend to his Fame, as well as to his Family, took the freedom to expostulate upon this Sub-ject
