The History of the Condition of Women: Comprising the women of Europe, America, and South Sea IslandsJ. Allen, 1835 |
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Page 192 - M., wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her in sickness and in health; .and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer: I will.
Page 192 - N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part (Mark, x.
Page 192 - God's holy ordinance ; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Page 257 - Gentledame inquire, what dresse the Queen is in this week; what the nudiustertian fashion of the Court; I mean the very newest: with egge to be in it in all haste, what-ever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if she were of a kickable substance, than either honoured or humoured.
Page 15 - Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance and hymeneal rite ; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed: The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute, and cittern's silver sound: Through the fair streets the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show.
Page 117 - B were sole and I sole, I would take her to be my wife before all the wymen of the worlde, of what condiciones soever they be, good or evylle, as help me God and His seyntes, and this flesh and all fleshes.
Page 257 - English woman should scorne with her heels : it is no marvell they weare drailes on the hinder part of their heads, having nothing as it seems in the fore-part, but a few Squirrils brains to help them frisk from ill-favor'd fashion to another. These whimm' Crown' d shees, these fashion-fansying wits, Are empty thin brain
Page 192 - WITH this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 125 - As they gather'd round the helpless One, Again a noble band ! " We are thy warriors, lady ! True to the Cross and thee ! The spirit of thy kindling words On every sword shall be ! Rest, with thy fair child on thy breast, Rest — we will guard thee well! St. Dennis for the Lily-flower, And the Christian citadel !
Page 256 - ... wherewith they are now surcingled and debauched. We have about five or six of them in our Colony : if I see any of them accidentally, I cannot cleanse my fancy of them for a month after.