ce of God called Marriage would but call to minde how the blessed
and immaculate Virgin (our Saviours Mother) was betrothed to _Joseph_, lest
honourable Marriage might be disreputed, and seem inglorious, by a positive
rejection from any participation of that transcendent honour! I could
heartily wish that these our _Romanists_ would but imitate the brave
example of the old _Romans_, who thought none eligible to be _Jupiters_
Priests but such as were {34} Married; and (as _Tacitus_ and _Suetonius_
tell us) set a Fine upon their heads who refused to be united in the holy
Bonds of Matrimony. It was out of respect to this, that the Emperour
_Augustus_ sent for _Germanicus_ his Children, and hugging and caressing
them in his Royal breast, signified by his countenance, and other signes of
his hand, that others ought to imitate _Germanicus_ in marrying with joy
and alacrity.

And thus you see I have asserted and maintained the laudable Priviledge and
Ordination of Marriage; and now cannot but be convinced that you think, in
this my last _Recipe_ of Marriage I have prescribed you pleasanter Physick
then in any of the former: If therefore you cannot obtain a cure from them,
you may from this joyned to them. _Suetonius_ tells us, that _Galba_
selected a Jewel to beautifie and adorn the Goddess _Fortune_; which (on
the sudden) as if it deserved a more sacred Deity, he dedicated to _Venus_.
But I hope, that we, after we have selected those Pearls of price our Souls
for Gods service, shall not {35} dedicate them to _Venus_ and our sensual
appetites; for we are most certainly informed by the Text, _That the end
thereof is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword_.

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FINIS.

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Notes.

[1] _Mulier formosa superne definit in piscem._ Hor. _de arte Poet_.

[2] 2 Sam. 13. 18.

[3] _Terent. in Glycerio._

[4] [Greek: herkos o donton]. _Homer._

[5] _Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus. Tull. de Offic._

[6] _Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras----Hic labor hoc opus
est_--Virg.

[7] _Bartholin. in Tractatu de motu Chyli._

[8] _--Pictoribus----Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas._ Hor.
_de arte Poet._

[9] _Saepius petiit viros quam petebatur._ Salust.

[10] _Nihil quod turpiter facere aut pati posset infectum relinqueret,
quicquid liberet pro licito judicans._ Suet.

[11] _Sueton. in vit. Neron._

[12] _M