Should heaven bid my wifhes with freedom implore
One blifs for the anguifh I fuffer'd before,
For Jefsy, dear Jefsy alone would I pray,
And grafp my whole wifh on my wedding-day.
Blefs'd be th' approach of my wedding-dayi p
Hail my dear nymph and my wedding-dayi
Earth, fmile more verdant, and heaven fhine more gay i
For happinefs dawns'with my wedding-day. .
But Luna, who equally fovereign prefides
O'er the hearts of the Ladies, and flow of the' tides.
Unhappily changing, foon chang'd his wife's mind:
O Fate, could a wife prove-.fo conftant and kind!
Why, was I born to a wedding-dayi
Curs d, ever curs'd be my wedding-dayi
C^lin, poor Colin thus changes his lay,
And dates all hia plagues from his wedding-day.
Ye Batchelors, warn'd by the Shepherds diftrefs.
Be taught from your freedom td meafure \our blifs,
Nor fall to the witchcraft of beauty a prey,
And blaft all your joys on a wedding-day.
Horns are the gift of a wedding-day,:
Want and a Scold crown a wedding-day,
^ 3 PP V * ne gallant, who wife when he mav,
Prefers a ftout rope to a wedding-day.