Part 93 (1/2)

”Before uarded reply

”And afterward?” anxiously

”Afterward I found they had to”

1288

MARRIAGE,--CHOICE IN

_Boswell_: ”Pray, sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?” _Johnson_: ”Ay, sir, fifty thousand” _Boswell_: ”Then, sir, you are not of opinion with soine that certain men and certain women are made for each other, and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counterparts” _Johnson_: ”To be sure not, sir

I believe eneral be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circu any choice in the matter”

_Boswell's Johnson, p 283_ --_Samuel Johnson_

1289

Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry

--_Cowper_

1290

When a man and woman are married their romance ceases and their history commences

1291

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts, where o in, And they that are within, would fain go out

--_Sir J Davis_

1292

Marriage somewhat resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, oftenanyone who comes between them

--_S Smith_

1293

_Marry in your own Rank_ Wise was the hed well this ue published it abroad, that to marry in one's own class is best by far, and that a peasant should woo the hand neither of any that have waxed wanton by riches, nor of such as pride thee

--_Aeschylus_