Courtship and marriage

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[London : Publish'd by R Sayer, 1745?]

Peel 0338

Published:

[London : Publish'd by R. Sayer, 1745?].

Notes:

Copy in Lewis Walpole Library, no. 745.0.3. Copy in Library of Congress.
Not in British Museum?
Reversible print, with leering and grimacing profiles representing 'Courtship' and 'Marriage' respectively. Six lines of verse appear under "Courtship": " When two Fond Fools together meet, / Each look gives Joy, each Kiss so sweet; / Pleasures the Burden of the Song, / Toying and playing all day long: / When Wed, how cold, and cross they'll be, / Turn up side down, and then you'll see". The heading "Marriage" gives the following verses: "That Form once o'er with Angry Brow, / The Married Pair both Peevish grow, / All night and day, they scold, and growl, / She calls him Ass, he calls her fool: / Thus oft we see in real Life, / Love ends, When once you're Man and Wife".
The publication line given here is from Library of Congress copy.

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18th century

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Drawings and Prints