Mercurius Matrimonialis or Chapmen for the Ladies lately Offered to Sale by Way of Auction.
Reading edition
(procured by one of their own Sex)
[62.]A Country Gentleman, who has a very delicate Seat between 20 and 30 Miles off London, and a very considerable Estate, a very Proper Comely Person, but not very Witty.
A Linnen Draper near the Stocks Market, a very handsome Genteel Man.
A Milliner on the Royal Exchange, much admired for his Handsomness and Gentility.
A Clergyman near Exeter, but now in Town, a pretty Black Man, a very good Scholar, proposes for a Joynture £200 per Ann. in Free-land.
A Bookseller near the Exchange a very Sober Man, a Man of a Good Trade, besides some Estate.
A Linnen Drapers Son in Cornhill, a very pretty genteel Man, his Father a Man of a very good Estate.
A Goldsmith behind the Exchange—so, so.—
A Miliner in Cheapside, near the end of Bread Street, very genteel but no conjurer.
For the Brewers Daughter, a Lace Man in Pater Noster Row, who loves the smell of Malt and good Ale, of good heighth and Stature, and Stomach answerable.
A Coffee Man, well lin'd with Broad Pieces of Gold, and has a good Trade, a Widdower, wants a Bar keeper.
A Bookseller's Son in Paul's Church yard, an extream Genteel man, and of the same kidney as the Mercer in Covent Garden.
A Commission Officer, full of Courage, brim full of Honour, a well proportion'd Man, and very beautiful and yet wants Money.
An Apothecary near Bread Street Hill, a very genteel Man, a Widdower.
A Young Gentleman now learning to Dance, wants a Wife to guide him, his Estate £150 per Ann.
A Haberdasher's Son in Cheapside, makes a great Figure in the World, his Education good, only wants a Wife, or Place.
A diminutive Bookseller, very difficult in his Choice, £5000 proves a Temptation to him.
A Mercer upon Ludgate Hill, Kin to a good Estate, his Trade indifferent:
A young Merchant, whose Estate lyes on the Carriby Islands, if his Cargo misses the French Fleet, he makes a good Joynture.
An Ancient Gentleman now purchasing an Estate, wants a rich Wife to stand by him.
A Goldsmith near the Royal Exchange, a Widdower, of a very considerable Estate, besides a great Trade, will make a good Joynture, and perhaps keep a Coach, he's a very brisk Man.
[51.]One Climbing of a Tree, by hap, Fell downe and brake his arme, And did complaine unto a friend, Of his unluckie harme. Would I had counsel'd you before, (quoth he to whom he spake) I know a tricke for Climbers, that They never hurt shall take. Neighbour (sayd he) I have a Sonne, And he doth use to climbe, Pray let me know the same for him Against another time? Why thus, (quoth he) let any man That lives, climbe nere so hie, And make no more haste downe, than up, No harme can come thereby.
[61.] A Gentleman who had constantly beene a good fellow, meeting with some of his friends at a mornings draught, told his Companions that, God forgive him, he went to bed like a beast last night. Why? quoth they, were you so drunk? No, quoth he, I was so sober.