Unlike most modern matches ours shall be,

From settlement, the lawyers fetters free;

I’ll quit my All, and be content with thee.

Then haste away, and strike detraction dead;

The nuptial feast awaits you, and the bed;

Nor fear the hand that will endure for life,

With me, your loving and your faithful wife.

POSTSCRIPT.

These earnest dictates of my anxious heart

I beg you will not to your friend impart;