Not content with depriving your bodies of spirit,

He allots but one husband to share amongst four,

With souls you'd dispense—but this last who could bear it.

4.

His religion to please neither party is made,

On husbands 'tis hard, to the wives most uncivil;

But I can't contradict what so oft has been said,

"Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil."

5.

This terrible truth, even Scripture has told,

Ye Benedicks! hear me, and listen with rapture;

If a glimpse of redemption you wish to behold,

Of St. MATT.—read the second and twentieth chapter.

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6.

'Tis surely enough upon earth to be vex'd,

With wives who eternal confusion are spreading;

"But in Heaven" (so runs the Evangelist's Text,)

"We neither have giving in marriage, or wedding."

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