ON A HASTY MARRIAGE.

Marry’d! ’tis well! a mighty blessing!

But poor’s the joy, no coin possessing.

In antient times, when folks did wed,

’Twas to be one at “board and bed:”

But hard’s his case, who can’t afford

His charmer either bed or board!

NEW-YORK: Printed by JOHN TIEBOUT, No. 358, Pearl-Street, for THOMAS BURLING, Jun. & Co. Subscriptions for this Magazine (at 6s. per quarter) are taken in at the Printing-Office, and at the Book-Store of Mr. J. FELLOWS, Pine-Street.

The New-York Weekly Magazine;

OR, MISCELLANEOUS REPOSITORY.

Vol. II.]WEDNESDAY, May24, 1797.[No. 99.