A Golden Guide to Matrimony.

Guide to Matrimony;

OR

THREE STEPS TO THE ALTAR,

WITH SIX QUALIFICATIONS FOR WEDDED LIFE:

AND ALL ITS SECRETS REVEALED,

Showing that there is but one Connubial Love, and its
Analogy to Spiritual Love.

ILLUSTRATED BY SEVEN ENGRAVINGS.

Melksham, Wilts.

By JOB FLOWER,

BIBLIOTHEET

DEC 1882

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CITY, MELKSHAM, WILTS.

"WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly,

And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?

"The only art her guilt to cover,

To hide her shame from every eye;
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is-to die."

Goldsmith.

PREFACE.

YE who desire a Wedded Life,
Who seek a Husband or a Wife,
Within this Book a guide you'll find
To gain the object of your mind.

A faithful friend 'twill prove to you,
A counsellor sincere and true,

A pilot to that happy state

Which all true lovers contemplate.

T may be asked what could have induced the Author to undertake the task set before him in compiling and publishing the present work.

To this he would reply that in the course

of a lengthened experience, and close observation of human nature in this and other lands, he has seen so much confusion in matrimonial affairs, so many unhappy marriages, and so vast an amount of misery resulting therefrom, that he has felt it to be a conscientious duty to