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THE MORAL.
To get a husband rich, gentle, and gay,
Of humour sweet, some time to stay
Is natural enough, 'tis true;
But then to wait a hundred years,
And all the while asleep, appears
A thing entirely new.
Now at this time of day,
Not one of all the sex we see
To sleep with such found tranquillity.
But yet this fable seems to let us know,
That very often Hymen's bless is sweet,
Although some tedious obstaeles they meet:
Which makes us for them a long while stay,
And that we nothing lose by such delay.
But warm'd by nature's lambient fires,
The sex so ardently aspires,
Of this blest state the sacred joys t' embrace
And with each earnest heart pursue'in,
I've not the will, I must eonfess,
Nor yet the power of fine address,
To preach this moral to 'em.
