(To be continued.)
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+The MENTAL and PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS of a HUSBAND.+
Great good nature, good humour, and good sense.
Lively by all means.
Stupid by no means.
His person agreeable rather than handsome.
No great objection to six feet, with an exact symmetry of parts.
Always clean, but not foppish in his dress.
Youth promises a duration of happiness, therefore is agreeable.
Well read in the classics, but no pedant.
Experimentally acquainted with natural philosophy.
A tolerable ear for music, but no fidler. I must repeat it again, no
fidling husband.
An easy and unaffected politeness.
No bully; just as much courage as is necessary to defend his own and his
wife’s honour.
May fortune smile on the man of my wishes.
A free thinker in every thing, except in matters of religion.
These, with Mr. Pope’s definition of wit, are the only qualifications I
require in the man I intend to honour with my hand and heart.
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