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 Virtues, 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, sond 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 satyrical 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):

Dialogues.

Marriage--Humor.

Marriage.

Marriage--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v. )

Edition:

The fourth edition, corrected.

Other Title:

Nuptial dialogues and debates

Place of Publication:

London : printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder and Co. J. Wren, P. Davey and B. Law, C. Ware, and J. Hope, M.DCC.LIX. [1759]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N5912.

OCLC:

642216561