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out Affection, you must be content to live without Affection; if you come madly together, you must expect to live madly together; as King Charles said to his Brother, the Duke of York, when he had married the Lord Chancellor's Daughter in private, and would have disowned her in publick, you must Drink as you Brew; in short, the Bond is too sacred to be broken at pleasure; the Chain too strong for the two Bulls to break; as you are once bound you must remain in Bonds; once in Algier, and ever a Slave; nothing releases you but a Redemption by Death, on one Side or other.
How foolish then, as well as wicked and unlawful, is it to marry before you love? To rush into a state of irrecoverable Life without the only Article that can make it tolerable? They that marry without Affection go to Sea without a Rudder; launch into the most dangerous Ocean without a Pilot, and without a Compass: Love is the only Pilot of a married State; without it there is nothing but Danger in the Attempt, nothing but Ruin in the Consequence.
The dirty Part of it I have mentioned; and I still insist upon it, that it is not a Matrimony of a right kind; to me it is no Matrimony at all, but a corrupt, rash, hot-headed (and worse) Bargain, made to gratify the worst Part of the Man or Woman, to please the grossest Part of his Constitution, and for nothing else. Let a modest Woman, if such she can be, stand forth, and answer this one short Question:
Pray, Madam, what do you marry this Gentleman for?
She cannot say, she marries him to take care of her Affairs, as is generally the Plea ofthe
