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INST.755.004
1 May 1755:34 (1/9)
Of all the pleasures that endear human life, there are none
more worthy the attention of a rational creature, than those
that flow from the mutual return of conjugal live. Our
great poet Milton, after he has describ'd the nuptial bower
of Adam and Eve in Paradise, thus call upon that blissful
state,
Hail wedded love! misterious law, true source,
Of human offspring, sole propriety, in paradise
Of all things common else, by thee adult'rous lust
Was driven from men, among the bestial herds to range,
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