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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair one, why cannot you an old man love? <br>He may as useful, and more constant prove. <br>Experience shews you that maturer years <br>Are a security against those fears <br>Youth will expose you to; whose wild desire <br>As it is hot, so 'tis as rash as fire. <br>Mark how the blaze extinct in ashes lies, <br>Leaving no brand nor embers when it dies <br>Which might the flame renew: thus soon consumes <br>Youths wandring heat, and vanishes in fumes. <br>When ages riper love unapt to stray <br>Through loose and giddy change of objects, may <br>In your warm bosom like a cynder lie, <br>Quickned and kindled by your sparkling eie. <br>Tis not deni'd, there are extremes in both <br>Which may the fancie move to like or loath: <br>Yet of the two you better shall endure <br>To marry with the Cramp then Calenture. <br>Who would in wisdom choose the Torrid Zone <br>Therein to settle a Plantation? <br>Merchants can tell you, those hot Climes were made <br>But at the longest for a three years trade: <br>And though the Indies cast the sweeter smell, <br>Yet health and plenty do more Northward dwell; <br>For where the raging Sun-beams burn the earth,<br>Her scorched mantle withers into dearth; <br>Yet when that drought becomes the Harvests curse, <br>Snow doth the tender Corn most kindly nurse: <br>Why now then wooe you not some snowy head <br>To take you in meer pitty to his bed? <br>I doubt the harder task were to perswade <br>Him to love you: for if what I have said <br>In Virgins as in Vegetals holds true, <br>Hee'l prove the better Nurse to cherish you. <br>Some men we know renown'd for wisdom grown <br>By old records and antique Medalls shown; <br>Why ought not women then be held most wise <br>Who can produce living antiquities? <br>Besides if care of that main happiness <br>Your sex triumphs in, doth your thoughts possess, <br>I mean your beauty from decay to keep; <br>No wash nor mask is like an old mans sleep. <br>Young wives need never to be Sun-burnt fear, <br>Who their old husbands for Umbrellaes wear: <br>How russet looks an Orchard on the hill <br>To one that's water'd by some neighb'ring Drill? <br>Are not the floated Medowes ever seen <br>To flourish soonest, and hold longest green? <br>You may be sure no moist'ning lacks that Bride, <br>Who lies with Winter thawing by her side. <br>She should be fruitful too as fields that joyne <br>Unto the melting waste of Appenine. <br>Whil'st the cold morning-drops bedew the Rose, <br>It doth nor leaf, nor smell, nor colour lose; <br>Then doubt not Sweet! Age hath supplies of wet <br>To keep You like that flowr in water set. <br>Dripping Catarrhs and Fontinells are things <br>Will make You think You grew betwixt two Springs. <br>And should You not think so, You scarce allow <br>The force or Merit of Your Marriage-Vow; <br>Where Maids a new Creed learn, & must from thence <br>Believe against their own or others sence. <br>Else Love will nothing differ from neglect, <br>Which turns not to a vertue each defect. <br>Ile say no more but this; you women make <br>Your Childrens reck'ning by the Almanake. <br>I like it well, so you contented are, <br>To choose their Fathers by that Kalendar. <br>Turn then old Erra Pater, and there see <br>According to lifes posture and degree, <br>What age or what complexion is most fit <br>To make an English Maid happy by it; <br>And You shall find, if You will choose a man, <br>Set justly for Your own Meridian, <br>Though You perhaps let One and Twenty woo, <br>Your elevation is for Fifty Two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+King">Henry King</a><div class=q>
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He may as useful, and more constant prove. 
Experience shews you that maturer years 
Are a security against those fears 
Youth will expose you to; whose wild desire 
As it is hot, so 'tis as rash as fire...."></div>
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