is pleasant; a marriage of interest easy; and a marriage where both
meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship,
all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of
life." "It is the policy of the Londoners," says Thomas Fuller, "when
they send a ship into the Mediterranean Sea, to make every mariner
therein a merchant, each seaman venturing somewhat of his own, which
will make him more wary to avoid, and more valiant to undergo dangers.
Thus married men, especially if having posterity, are