{"id":206,"date":"2015-06-24T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanlit1x22x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=206"},"modified":"2015-06-24T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:43:21","slug":"marriage-a-la-mode","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-britlit1\/chapter\/marriage-a-la-mode\/","title":{"raw":"Marriage A-La-Mode","rendered":"Marriage A-La-Mode"},"content":{"raw":"by John Dryden<\/strong>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nWhy should a foolish marriage vow,\r\n

Which long ago was made,<\/p>\r\nOblige us to each other now,\r\n

When passion is decayed?<\/p>\r\nWe loved, and we loved, as long as we could,\r\n

'Till our love was loved out in us both;<\/p>\r\nBut our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled:\r\n

'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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\r\n\r\nIf I have pleasures for a friend,\r\n

And further love in store,<\/p>\r\nWhat wrong has he, whose joys did end,\r\n

And who could give no more?<\/p>\r\n<\/span>'Tis a madness that he\r\n

Should be jealous of me,<\/p>\r\nOr that I should bar him of another:\r\n

For all we can gain,<\/p>\r\nIs to give ourselves pain,\r\n

When neither can hinder the other.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n ","rendered":"

by John Dryden<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why should a foolish marriage vow,<\/p>\n

Which long ago was made,<\/p>\n

Oblige us to each other now,<\/p>\n

When passion is decayed?<\/p>\n

We loved, and we loved, as long as we could,<\/p>\n

‘Till our love was loved out in us both;<\/p>\n

But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled:<\/p>\n

‘Twas pleasure first made it an oath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If I have pleasures for a friend,<\/p>\n

And further love in store,<\/p>\n

What wrong has he, whose joys did end,<\/p>\n

And who could give no more?<\/p>\n

<\/span>‘Tis a madness that he<\/p>\n

Should be jealous of me,<\/p>\n

Or that I should bar him of another:<\/p>\n

For all we can gain,<\/p>\n

Is to give ourselves pain,<\/p>\n

When neither can hinder the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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