Answer to the Fourth Mock Comfort.

The Marriage-hater here is forc’d to own,
The many Comforts which doth Wedlock Crown. 
But strives to mix it with such Cares and Toil,
As if curs’d Malice cou’d such Blessings spoil. 
Makes Charges frightful on that very score,
As if Mankind should ne’er encrease no more;
Nay, Atheist-like, he makes it ten times worse,
And calls God’s Blessings nothing but a Curse: 
Our Sons are Sots, and all our Daughters Whores,
Because we keep the Woolf just from the Doors: 
Was ever Man so void of Sense and Shame,
As thus against all Reason to exclaim? 
As if a Wife her Kindness to impart,
Shou’d teaze her Husband as to break his Heart: 
This is such Stuff as ne’er was heard before,
But hope the like again shall see no more.

Answer to the Fifth Mock Comfort.

I here agree with this, my Rhiming Foe,
And own ’tis Folly when the Case is so;
For whatsoe’er the cunning Jilt pretend
To her Old Husband, yet she’ll have Her Friend;
She’ll coax the Dotard when his Bags are full,
Yet even then graft Horns upon his Skull,
Makes him a Beggar to enrich her Cull: 
She seems most fond, till she gets all the Pence,
And then with Bag and Baggage marches thence;
She leaves the Fool without one single Cross,
To sit, lamenting for his fatal Loss.

Answer to the Sixth Mock Comfort.

But here I differ from the Poet’s Thought,
Who says, A Scold as even good for nought;
For, like Job’s Wife, she will Man’s Patience try,
And bring Repentance too, before he die: 
Then who’d live single, if a Scolding Wife
Works such great Wonders in a Husband’s Life?

Answer to the Seventh Mock Comfort.

No modest Woman will disdain her Spouse,
Because he seldom peeps into her House;
Since Age and Sickness doth the Sport prevent,
She’ll exercise her Patience with Content: 
For where all’s gone, the Queen must lose Her Right,
So must a Wife the Pleasure of the Night. 
A Loving Woman, puts up those Defects,
And gives her Husband Honour and Respect;
Like Pious Sarah, serve him like a Lord;
Obeys in all things, which do’s Peace afford: 
Their Children too add Pleasure to their Lives! 
Thus Men are Bless’d, who marry Virtuous Wives.

Answer to the Eighth Mock Comfort.

Why should not Females under Wedlock tyes,
Participate with what the Man Enjoys? 
Man’s Second-self must have her share in Mirth
A Freedom, which is right to her by Birth: 
If Fortune’s Bounty has encreased her Store,
Her Husband’s Love to her shou’d be the more;
No Cost or Care too much for such a Wife,
Whose Vertuous Charms adds Pleasure to the Life: 
Such Comforts on a married Life depend,
There’s nothing like a Loving Bosom-Friend. 
If Husband’s Stock is wasted by mischance,
A careful Wife will soon the same advance.