(reaping oftentimes his own benefit by it) orders all things so liberally as he can make the people beleeve that is requisite.  And the Bride thinks, the nobler it is, the better I like it, for I am but once the Bride.  But this matter being dispatcht, there’s another consideration to be taken in hand, to know how the Bride & Bridegrooms friends shall be plac’d at the Table, the ordering whereof, many times causes such great disputes, that if they had known it before, they would rather have kept no Wedding.  In somuch that the Bridegroom and the Bride, with sighing, say to one another, alas, what a thick shell this marriage nut hath, before one can come to the kernel of it.  But Bridegroom to drive these damps out of your brain, there’s no better remedy then to go along with your Bridemen to tast the Wedding wine; for there must be sure care taken that it may be of a delicate tast and relish; Because that which was laid in before, was not so delicious as is required for such a noble Wedding, where there will be so many curious tasters.  Ha! riva!  Look to’t Bride and Bridemaids, you may now expect a jolly Bridegroom and Bridemen, for the Wine-Merchant is such a noble blade, that none of them all shall escape him, before they have drunk as many Glasses, as there are hoops upon the Wine-cask that they tasted of.

Adieu all care! the Wedding is at hand, who thinks now of any thing but superfluity of mirth?  Away with all these whining, pining Carpers, who are constantly talking & prating that the married estate brings nothing but care and sorrow with it; here, to the contrary, they may see how all minds & intentions are knit together, to consume and pass away these daies with the most superabounding pleasures.  Away with sorrow.  ’Tis not invited to be among the Wedding guests.  Noct there is nothing else to be thought on, but to help these Lovers that they may enjoy the kernel of the first pleasure of their marriage.

But really, there’s poor Mally the maid, is almost dead with longing, and thinks her very heart in pieces, scarcely knowing when the first Wedding-night will be ended, that she might carry up some water to the young couple, and have a feeling of those liberal gifts that she shall receive from the Bridegroom and the Bride, for all her attendance, running and turmoiling.  And her thoughts are, that no body has deserved it better, for by night and by day she waited upon them, and was very diligent and faithfull in conveyance of their Love-Letters; but all upon fair promises, having carried her self in the time of their wooing almost like a Bawd to the Bride; for which she never had in all the time but three gratuities from the Bridegroom,

    And now the Bride is in the bed,
    The former promises are dead.

Make your self merry amongst the rest of the Wedding guests, so far as is becoming you:  who knows, but that some brave Gentlemans man, Coachman, or neighbors servant, may fall in love with you; for many times out of one Wedding comes another, and then you might come to be a woman of good fashion.  Udsbud Mally! then you would know, as well as your Mistress, what delights are to be had in the first Wedding night.  Then you would also know how to discourse of the first Pleasure of marriage, and with the Bride expect the second.