12. Nor spoil them when they come home.
13. For that children generally extend their perverseness from the nurse to the schoolmaster: from the schoolmaster to the parents:
14. And, in their next step, as a proper punishment for all, make their ownselves unhappy.
15. That undutiful and perverse children make bad husbands and wives: And, collaterally, bad masters and mistresses.
16. That, not being subject to be controlled early, they cannot, when married, bear one another.
17. That the fault lying deep, and in the minds of each other, neither will mend it.
18. Whence follow misunderstandings, quarrels, appeals, ineffectual reconciliations, separations, elopements; or, at best, indifference; perhaps, aversion.—Memorandum; A good image of unhappy wedlock, in the words YAWNING HUSBAND, and VAPOURISH WIFE, when together: But separate, both quite alive.
19. Few married persons behave as he likes. Let me ponder this with awe and improvement.
20. Some gentlemen can compromise with their wives, for quietness sake; but he can’t. Indeed I believe that’s true; I don’t desire he should.
21. That love before marriage is absolutely necessary.