5939. Locheus. “The delight of mankind,
the solace of life, the
blandishments
of night, delicious cares of day, the wishes of older
men, the hopes
of young.”
5940. Bacon’s Essays.
5941. Euripides.
5942. “How harmoniously do a loving wife
and constant husband lead their
lives.”
5943. Cum juxta mare agrum coleret: Omnis
enim miseriae immemorem,
conjugalis amor
eum fecerat. Non sine ingenti admiratione, tanta
hominis charitate
motus rex liberos esse jussit, &c.
5944. Qui vult vitare molestias vitet mundum.
5945. [Greek: tide bios tithe terpnon ater chrysaes
aphroditaes.] Quid vita
est quaeso quidve
est sine Cypride dulce? Mimner.
5946. Erasmus.
5947. E Stobeo.
5948. Menander.
5949. Seneca Hyp. lib. 3. num. 1.
5950. Hist. lib. 4.
5951. Palingenius. “He lives contemptibly by whom no other lives.”
5952. Bruson. lib. 7. cap. 23.
5953. Noli societatem habere, &c.
5954. Lib. 1. cap. 6. Si, inquit, Quirites,
sine uxore esse possemus, omnes
careremus; Sed
quoniam sic est, saluti potius publicae quam voluptati
consulendum.
5955. Beatum foret si liberos auro et argento mercari, &c.
5956. Seneca. Hyp.
5957. Gen. ii. Adjutorium simile, &c.
5958. Ovid. “Find her to whom you may say, ‘thou art my only pleasure.’”
5959. Euripides. “Unhappy the man
who has met a bad wife, happy who found a
good one.”
5960. E Graeco Valerius, lib. 7. cap. 7.
“To marry, and not to marry, are
equally base.”
5961. Pervigilium Veneris e vetere poeta.
5962. Donaus non potest consistere sine uxore. Nevisanus lib. 2. num. 18.
5963. Nemo in severissima Stoicorum familia qui
non barbam quoque et
supercilium amplexibus
uxores submiserit, aut in ista parte a
reliquis dissenserit.
Hensius Primiero.
5964. Quid libentius homo masculus videre debet quam bellam uxorem?
5965. Chaucer.
5966. Conclusio Theod. Podro. mi. 9. l. Amor.
5967. Ovid.
5968. Epist. 4. l. 2. Jucundiores multo
et suaviores longe post molestas
turbas amantium
nuptiae.
5969. Olim meminisse juvabit.
5970. Quid expectatis, intus fiunt nuptiae, the
music, guests, and all the
good cheer is
within.
5971. The conclusion of Chaucer’s poem of Troilus and Creseid.
5972. Catullus.
5973. Catullus. J. Secundus Sylvar. lib.
Jam Virgo thalamum subibit unde ne
virgo redeat,
marite cura.
5974. Ecclus. xxxix. 14.
5975. Galeni Epithal.
5976. O noctem quater et quater beatam.
5977. Theocritus idyl. 18.


