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A Letter from a Mother to her Daughter To Per swade her from rash Marriage.

Daughter,

AS I have a peculiar Int'rest in you, so it is my chiefest care to study that you may be we•• Provided for in Marriage; and since I hear you en∣tertain many that solicit you that way, I thought •• became me though you are at present from unde•• my wing or immediate Jurisdiction to give you•• caution how you proceed in that great Affair, a busi∣ness upon which depends your present and fut•••• Felicity on this side Heaven, and though frequently too hastily undertaken; yet if it fortune unhappy nothing remains but an uneasie Life, and a fruitless repentance; nor is there a Cordial but Death, which proves at best but sower and unsavoury therefore le•• a Mothers advice prevail with you not to give credi•• lightly to the Flatteries and Dissimulations of Men whose Vows and Protestations for the most part a•• valued no more than common Air when once the••

have obtained their ends but he wary and cautious in your Proceedings; that so you may not only be ac∣counted wise by those that you converse withall, but likewise that it may Redound to your own advantage considering that in your happiness, mine by sympa∣thy consists, and that as a Mother whose affections cannot dissemble, I shall on all occasions be ready to bear a part with you according to my strength and ability, as well in Sufferings or Adversity, as in yonr Advancement and Prosperity: Therefore as you ten∣der an indulgent Mother, and wou'd avoid hasten∣ing her steps to the Grave be cauteous in this affair; and so with my Prayers to Heaven for your welfare, I remain, Your Tender and Loving Mother,

A. B.