Nuptial dialogues and debates : or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the Excellent Vertues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools, and Wantons; old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all Sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satirical poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In two volumes. By Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Humor.

Marriage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates ) port. ;

Edition:

The third edition, adorn'd with cuts.

Other Title:

Nuptial dialogues and debates

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Mess. Bettesworth, and Hitch, Ware, and Osborn, in Pater-Noster-Row; Hodges, on London-Bridge; Baily, in Mitre-Court, Fleetstreet; and Cummins, at the Royal Exchange, 1737.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T125015.

OCLC:

642345629