Reasons against matrimony; being a survey of the isle of marriage: or, a new and accurate description of all the provinces, districts, ports, towns, Rivers, Policy and Government of that vast and populous country. Containing a particular Account of its various Inhabitants, under the following Heads: The Discreet, the Prudes, the Ill-Match'd, the Ill-at-Ease, the Jealous, the Cuckolds, whether Contented, Frantick, Imaginary or Incredulous; and the Inhabitants of the two little Districts of Divorce and Widowhood; as also, some Remarks on the two Islands of Polygamy and of Love. With useful Directions and Cautions how to avoid the many dangerous Precipices, Torrents, Morasses and Quicksands, wherewith the Island of Marriage abounds, and wherein so many Thousands who have undertaken the Voyage, have miserably perished. To which is prefix'd, a dissuasive from matrimony, in an epistle dedicatory to Cælia.

Date:

MDCCXXXIV. [1734]