Female Advice

If you'd be truly blest in love, Be constant as the turtle dove, To him whom heav'n has made your choice, Love and Obey— (at Church your voice.) For better take him, or for worse, For bags of gold, or empty purse; For love or hate, for peace or war, For kiss or kick, box, bruise or scar; For dress or rags, for scorn or chaff, For wine or water, All, or half. Which ever is your lot in life, Be still the good and loving wife; Always kind, sincere and free, The house-wife with aeconomy; Obliging, modest, chaste and gay, Polite and cheerful—never Nay; Content with little, meek with riches, But let the Husband wear the breeches. If always mindful of your duty, He will, with love, reward your beauty.