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• Treatise on female ruin (Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780), by Martin Madan and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Look at home (Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard :, 1796), by Samuel Hazard, R. White, and John Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Treatise on female ruin (Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780), by Martin Madan and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Living in Love: Secrets From Bible Marriages, by Richard L. Strauss (HTML at bible.org)
• What God Hath Joined Together, by Harold Camping (PDF at refutecamping.com)
• What the Bible Says about Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage, by John Coblentz (HTML with commentary at anabaptists.org)
• Hebräisches Familienrecht in vorprophetischer Zeit (s.n., 1907), by Sigismund Rauh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Earnest pleas (Nashville, Tenn. : A.M.E. Sunday School Union Pub. House, 1891., 1891), by L. H. Smith, Charles Simpson Butcher, Henry McNeal Turner, W. J. Gaines, and A.M.E. Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions concerning the Bible law of marriage (Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1871., 1871), by One of the people (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teaching of our Lord, as to the indissolubility of marriage (The University Press, 1909), by Stuart Lawrence Tyson and Thomas Frank Gailor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vicissitudes in the wilderness; exemplified in the journal of Peggy Dow (Printed by W. Faulkner, 1833), by Peggy Dow and Lorenzo Dow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Married life in sacred story (S.H. Berry, 1895), by J. F. Carson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Ehe im alten Testament (H. Dabis, 1886), by Christian Stubbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bible and the scriptural ground of divorce forgery. (Boston : Gorham Press, [1921], 1921), by Richard G. Badger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian Marriage Indissoluble: A Plain Sermon: Preached at Archbishop Tenison's chapel, on the fifth Sunday after Trinity, 1857, by James Galloway Cowan (Gutenberg ebook)

• Dissertatio in sextum Decalogi praeceptum et Supplementum ad Tractatum de matrimonio. (Jouby & Roger, 1849), by J. B. Bouvier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Second Chance: Biblical Principles of Divorce and Remarriage (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, c1988), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• What God Hath Joined Together, by Harold Camping (PDF at refutecamping.com)
• What the Bible Says about Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage, by John Coblentz (HTML with commentary at anabaptists.org)
• Considerations on divorce a vinculo matrimonii : in connexion with Holy Scripture (C.J. Stewart, 1857), by Barrister (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marriage of divorced persons in church : two sermons preached in St Paul's Cathedral on February 16 & 23, 1896 (Longmans, Green, 1896), by G. F. Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Auslegung der neutestamentlichen Texte über die Ehescheidung : Historisch-kritisch dargestellt (Verlag der Aschendorffschen Buchhandlung, 1911), by Anton Ott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Divorce and divorce legislation : especially in the United States (Scribner's Sons, 1882), by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Argument against immediately repealing the laws which treat the nuptial bond as indissoluble (Jas. Parker, 1867), by John Keble (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bible and the scriptural ground of divorce forgery. (Boston : Gorham Press, [1921], 1921), by Richard G. Badger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The case of divorce and re-marriage thereupon discussed by a reverend prelate of the Church of England and a private of the Church of England and a private gentleman ; occasioned by the late act of Parliament for the divorce of the Lord Rosse. (London : Printed for Nevill Simmons ..., 1673), by Charles Wolseley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Hebräisches Familienrecht in vorprophetischer Zeit (s.n., 1907), by Sigismund Rauh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fair to Look Upon, by Mary Belle Freeley, illust. by W. L. Dodge (Gutenberg ebook)

• Hebräisches Familienrecht in vorprophetischer Zeit (s.n., 1907), by Sigismund Rauh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Marriage with a deceased wife's sister : Leviticus XVIII. 18, considered in connection with the law of the Levirate : a letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Hatherley, Lord high chancellor of England, &c., &c., &c. (James Parker and Co. ;, 1869), by Mayow Wynell Mayow and William Page Wood Hatherley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions of the Hebrew and Greek professors of the European universities, of Bible revisers, and of other eminent scholars and commentators on the scriptural aspect of the question regarding the legalization of marriage with a deceased wife's sister (Printed by Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1884), by T. Paynter Allen and Marriage Law Reform Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marriage with a deceased wife's sister: Leviticus XVIII. 18, considered in connection with the Law of the Levirate, by Mayow Wynell Mayow (Gutenberg ebook)

• Hebrew wife. (Leavitt, Lord ;, 1836), by Sereno Edwards Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)

• What the Bible Says about Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage, by John Coblentz (HTML with commentary at anabaptists.org)

• The Comforts of Matrimony, or Love's Last Shift: Consisting of Matrimonial Dialogues Between Persons of All Ranks and Degrees, From the Peer to the Peasant (London: Fielding and Walker, 1780), by Edward Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friendly Advice Comprehending General Heads of Qualifications Requisite for Those Who Wish to Marry Well and Live Happy, Compiled and Translated From Different Authors (London: Printed for the author, 1794), by Cesare Mussolini
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• The Ladies Defence: or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd (London: Printed for J. Deeve, 1701), by Mary Lee Chudleigh (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Woorke of the Holy Bishop S. Augustine Concernyng Adulterous Mariages, Written by Him to Pollentius, Divided into Two Bookes, Very Necessary to be Knowen of All Men and Women (1550), by Saint Augustine of Hippo (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce, by Martin Bucer, trans. by John Milton (HTML at Michigan)
• Munster Village: A Novel (2 volumes; London: Printed for Robson and Co., et al., 1778), by Mary Hamilton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• To His Wife (Ad Uxorem), by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Faces ausustao, sive, Poematia (sumptibus M. Havii, 1643), by Jacob Cats, Cornelis Boey, Isaac le Duc, and Caspar van Baerle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jana Mrowińskiego Płoczywłosa Stadło małżeńskie; 1561. (W Druckarni Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1890), by Jan Płoczywłos Mrowiński and Zygmunt Celichowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• R.P. Thomae Sanchez Cordubensis ... De sancto matrimonii sacramento disputationum : tomus primus : posterior et accuratior editio superiorum auctoritate recognita, ... : complectitur hic tomus libros sex ... (sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1739), by Tomás Sánchez, Laurent Anisson, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• R.P. Thomae Sanchez Cordubensis ... De sancto matrimonii sacramento disputationum : tomus secundus, In quo etiam continetur liber Septimus, qui de Impedimentis matrimonii agit. (sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1739), by Tomás Sánchez, Laurent Anisson, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• R.P. Thomae Sanchez Cordubensis ... De sancto matrimonii sacramento disputationum : tomus tertius, in quo contientur liber VIII. qui est de dispensationibus, & IX. qui de debito conjugali ... (sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1739), by Tomás Sánchez, Laurent Anisson, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ha entendido el Duque de Frias ... que la partida de matrimonios celebrados en la Iglesia de San Luis ... se tilde, y borre de aquella donde està sentada y se coloque en esta donde corresponde ... (s.n., 1750), by Bernardino Fernández de Velasco y Balfé Frías (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dudase. Si por las capitulaciones matrimoniales de Pedro del Campo y Doña Isabel de Castelar del año de 1464 : mem. à num. 90 tiene mejor derecho para suceder Doña Porcia que Doña Lucrecia ... (s.n., 1650), by Pedro del Campo, Juan Muriel, and Isabel de Castelar (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'homme et de la femme : considérés physiquement dans l'état du mariage (chez C.F.J. Lehoucq ..., 1778), by Louis François Luc de Lignac, C. F. J. Lehoucq, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'homme et de la femme : considérés physiquement dans l'état du mariage (chez C.F.J. Lehoucq ..., 1778), by Louis François Luc de Lignac, Brichet, C. F. J. Lehoucq, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dominici Baudii Amores (Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1638), by Dominique Baudius, Pieter Schrijver, and Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Génération de l'homme (Chez J. Ryckhoff, Libraire, 1778), by Nicolas Venette (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'homme et de la femme considérés physiquement dans l'état du mariage (Chez C.F.J. Lehoucq, 1778), by M. de. Lignac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monsieur & madame Levret ont l'honneur de vous faire part du Mariage de mademoiselle leur fille avec monsieur Destremau. ([s.n.], 1701), by Levret, Destremau, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les quinze joyes de mariage. (P. Jannet, 1857), by Antoine de La Sale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marriage : its history and ceremonies; with a pherenological and physiological expostion of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages (Fowlers and Wells, 1853), by L. N. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imeneo trionfante nelle reali nozze dell' A. S. di P. P. con la ser.a principes.a di Toscana (Per Giacomo Ardizzoni ..., 1628), by Cesare Albano Anguissola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hochzeitsgeschenk. (Concordia, 1903), by Martin Luther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some reflections upon marriage : occasion'd by the Duke & Dutchess of Mazarine's case, which is also consider'd. (Printed for John Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1700), by Mary Astell and John Nutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Direction for married persons. (Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster-row, at the signe of the Talbot, 1619), by William Whately, Thomas Man, Felix Kingston, and English Printing Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on marriage. (Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ..., 1788), by Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress), Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), and American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paraphrasi nella sesta Satira di Giuvenale (Per Curtio Nauo e fratelli, 1538), by Lodovico Dolce, Gaius Valerius Catullus, and Juvenal (page images at HathiTrust)
• De incertitudine & vanitate omnium scientiarum & artium liber (Excudebat Severinus Matthaei, pro officinis Abrahami Commelini & Davidis Lopes de Haro, 1643), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, David Lopez de Haro, Abraham Commelinus, and Severinus Matthaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carta topografica dell'isola del maritaggio (publisher not identified, 1765), by Eustache Le Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les quinze joyes de mariage: Conforme au manuscript de la bibliothèque publique de Rouen (in French), by Antoine de La Sale, ed. by Pierre Jannet (Gutenberg ebook)
• La perfecta casada (in Spanish), by Luis de León (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Modest Meane to Mariage: pleasauntly set foorth by that famous Clarke Erasmus Roterodamus, and translated into Englishe by N.L., by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Nicholas Leigh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Traité de la jalousie. English (London : Printed for W. Freeman ..., 1684), by Antoine de Courtin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Matrimoniall honovr, or, The mutuall crowne and comfort of godly, loyall, and chaste marriage wherein the right way to preserve the honour of marriage unstained, is at large described, urged, and applied : with resolution of sundry materiall questions concerning this argument / by D.R. ... (London : Printed by Th. Harper for Philip Nevel, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1642), by D. R. (Daniel Rogers) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A mery dialogue, declaringe the propertyes of shrowde shrewes, and honest wyues not onelie verie pleasaunte, but also not a lytle profitable: made by ye famous clerke D. Erasmus Roterodamus. Translated into Englyshe. ([Imprynted at London : In Paules churche yearde, at the sygne of the Sunne, by [J. Cawood for] Antony Kytson], Anno. M.CCCCC. lvii. [1557]), by Desiderius Erasmus and John Rastell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Matrimonii encomium. English ([Imprynted at London : In Flestrete [sic] at the sygne of the George by me Robert Redman, [1536?]), by Desiderius Erasmus and Richard Taverner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The extravagant spend-thrift, or, Wit dearly bought. For what he spent he did repent, when he beheld his grief, to end the strife, his loving wife, afforded him releif [sic]. To an excellent new tune. This may be printed R.P. ([London] : Printed for J[ohn]. Back, at the Black Boy, on London-Bridge, [between 1682 and 1703?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The honour of marriage, or, The institution, necessity, advantages, comforts, and usefulness of a married life set forth in a sermon January 27, 1694, at Seven-Oak in Kent / by Joseph Fisher ... (London : Printed for Brabazon Aylmer ..., 1695), by Joseph Fisher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A satirycall dialogue or a sharplye-invectiue conference, betweene Allexander the great, and that truelye woman-hater Diogynes (Imprinted in the Lowcountryes [i.e. Dordrecht : By George Waters] for all such gentlewomen as are not altogeather idle nor yet well. ocupyed, [1616?]), by William Goddard, the Great Alexander, and d. ca. 323 B.C. Diogenes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A godlie exhortation, and fruitfull admonition to vertuous parents and modest matrons Describing the holie vse, and blessed institution of that most honorable state of matrimonie, and the encrease of godlie and happy children, in training them vp in godly education, and houshold discipline. R.G. (Imprinted at London : [By Ihon Windet and Thomas Iudson] for Nicholas Ling, 1584), by Richard Greenham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A happy husband or, Directions for a maide to choose her mate As also, a wiues behauiour towards her husband after marriage. By Patricke Hannay, Gent. To which is adioyned the Good wife, together with an exquisite discourse of epitaphs, including the choysest thereof, ancient or moderne. By R.B. Gent. (Printed at London : [By John Beale] for Richard Redmer, and are to be sold at his shop at the vvest end of Saint Pauls Church, 1619), by Patrick Hannay and Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue compacte in a matter concernyng two maner of mariages, made and set foorth by Iohn̄ Heywood. (Londini : [Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelet prynter to the kynges hyghnesse], An. M.D.XLVI. [1546]), by John Heywood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A curtaine lecture as it is read by a countrey farmers wife to her good man. By a countrey gentlewoman or lady to her esquire or knight. By a souldiers wife to her captain or lievtenant. By a citizens or tradesmans wife to her husband. By a court lady to her lord. Concluding with an imitable lecture read by a queene to her soveraigne lord and king. (London : Printed by Robert Young for Iohn Aston, 1637), by Thomas Heywood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Incestuous marriages, or, relations of consanguinity and affinity hindering and dissolving marriage, as making all marriages within such relations to be incestuous, and all children begotten of such marriages to be illegitimate, or bastards to all intents and purposes (London : printed for Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-lane, 1677/8) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Quinze joyes de mariage. English ([London : Wynkyn de Worde, 1509]), by Antoine de La Sale and Robert Copland (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of vsurie. By Henrie Smith. (Imprinted at London : By Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, dwelling in Paternoster row at the signe of the Talbot, 1591), by Henry Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A briefe and pleasant discourse of duties in mariage, called the flower of friendshippe (Imprinted at London : By Henrie Denham, dwelling in Paternoster Rowe, at the signe of the Starre, Anno 1571), by Edmund Tilney (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• In laudem matrimonii oratio ([Impressa Londini : Anno verbi incarnati. M.D.xviij. Idibus Nouembris per Richardum Pynson, [1518 (13 Nov.)]]), by Cuthbert Tunstall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The office and duetie of an husband, made by the excelle[n]t philosopher Lodouicus Viues, and translated into English by Thomas Paynell (Imprinted at London : In Pouls Churcheyarde, by Iohn Cawood, prynter vnto the Quenes hyghnes[, 1555?]), by Juan Luis Vives and Thomas Paynell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An heptameron of ciuill discourses Containing: the Christmasse exercise of sundrie well courted gentlemen and gentlewomen. In whose behauiours, the better sort, may see, a represe[n]tation of thier own vertues: and the inferiour, may learne such rules of ciuil gouernme[n]t, as wil rase out the blemish of their basenesse: wherin, is renowned, the vertues, of a most honourable and braue mynded gentleman. And herein, also, as it were in a mirrour the vnmaried may see the defectes whiche eclipse the glorie of mariage: and the wel maried, as in a table of housholde lawes, may cull out needefull preceptes to establysh their good fortune. A worke, intercoursed with ciuyll pleasure, to reaue tediousnesse from the reader: and garnished with morall noates to make it profitable, to the regarder. The reporte, of George Whetstone. Gent. (At London : Printed by Richard Iones, at the signe of the Rose and the Crowne, neare Holburne Bridge, 3. Feb. 1582), by George Whetstone (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brefe and a playne declaratyon of the dewty of maried folkes gathered out of the holy scriptures, and set forth in the almayne tonge by Hermon archbyshop of Colayne, whiche wylled all the housholdes of his flocke to haue the same in their bedchambers as a mirror or glasse dayly to loke in, wherby they might know and do their dewties eche vnto others, and lede a godly, quiet and louing life togethers, and newly translated into ye Englishe tonge by Hans Dekyn. ([Imprynted at London : In Temestrete by [S. Mierdman for] Hughe Syngelton, at the sygne of the dobbel hood, ouer agaynste the Stylyarde, [1553?]]), by Hermann von Wied and Hans Dekyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The young-womans complaint: or, A caveat to all maids to have a care how they be married to old men The tune is, What should a young woman do with an old man, &c. or, The tyrant. (London : printed for W. Gilbertson in Giltspur-street without Newgate, [1660?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Account of marriage, or, The interests of marriage considered and defended against the unjust attacques of this age in a letter to a friend. (London : Printed by B.G. for Allen Bancks ..., 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advice to batchelors, or, A caution to be careful in their choice. As also, the deserved praise of a careful industrious wife. If thou wilt change a single life, to live free from annoy, chuse then a kind and careful wife, she'll crown thy days with joy. To the tune of, A touch of the times. Or, The country farmer. This may be printed. R.P. ([London] : Printed by P. Brooksby at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner, [between 1685-1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advice to batchelors, or, The married mans lamentation. Take heed you that unmarried are, how you do make your choice; but if a good wife you do find, 'twill make your heart rejoyce. Tune of, Hey boys up go we; Busie fame; Marrellus; or, Jenny Gin. ([London] : Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guildspur=street, without Newgate, [1685?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De beatissimae annae monogamia. English ([Londini : In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, Anno. M.D.XL. [1540]]), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and David Clapham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reflexions on marriage, and the poetick discipline a letter / by the author of The remarques on the town. (London : Printed for Allen Bancks ..., 1673), by Author of The remarques on the town (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The benefit of marriage. Or, The married mans good fortune, with his counsel to young batchelors. Who having tasted of that sweet content which wedlock doth afford, is fully bent to praise good women, giving them their due, yet speaks no more then what he knowes is true. Young men draw near, and buy this song, I pray, which being done, then bear it hence away, and to your sweet-hearts send it in a letter, 'twill be a means to make them love you better. To the tune of, The young mans advice (London : printed for E. Andrews, at the White Lion near Pye Corner, [1663?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The hasty wedding; or, William's patience rewarded: with the consent of pretty Nancy. To the tune of, The man of fashion, or, The doubting virgin. ([London] : Printed for, P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in Pye-corner., [between 1670-1696]), by Tobias Bowne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse against unequal marriages viz, against old persons marrying with young, against persons marrying without the parents or friends consent, against persons marrying without their own consent. (London : Printed for Dan Browne ... and Tho. Axe ..., 1696), by Samuel Bufford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A caution for scolds: or, A true way of taming a shrevv. To the tune of, Why are my eyes still flowing. This may be printed, R.P. ([London] : Printed by P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner, near West-Smithfield., [between 1685-1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A complaynt of them that be to soone maryed ([[London] : Fynysshed and done the yere of our lorde a thousande. CCCCC. and. xxxv. at London enprynted also by Wynkyn de Worde in fletestrete at the sygne of the son, [1535]]), by Robert Copland and Pierre Gringore (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The ten pleasures of marriage relating all the delights and contentments that are mask'd under the bands of matrimony / written by A. Marsh, typogr. (London : [s.n.], 1682), by A. Marsh (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gods arithmeticke. Written by Francis Meres, Maister of Arte of both Vniuersities, and student in diuinity ... (Printed at London : By Richard Iohnes, 1597), by Francis Meres (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Paris gazette ([London? : s.n., 1670?]), by Henry Stubbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The forc'd marriage. Or, vnfortunate Celia. When old fools do a wooing go to those who are young-girls, they court their cruel foes, the old man sees he can't prevail with tongue, but finds t[h]at young ones, love to sport with young: he to the virgins parents makes redress, and doth the n[u]mber of his bags express; which takes away her fathers heart by stealth, he weds her not to him, but to his wealth. VVhich being done, she loaths his weak embraces, and throws herself on ruinous disgraces. Tune, Since Celia's my foe. ([London] : Printed for E. Oliver, at the Golden-Key on Snow hill, neer the Sarazens-head., [between 1676-1685]), by Walter Pope (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The bride by S.R. (London : Printed by W.I. for T.P., 1617), by Samuel Rowlands (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Considerations concerning marriage the honour, duties, benefits, troubles of it whereto are added 1. directions in two particulars, 1. how they that have wives may be as if they had none, 2., how to prepare for parting with a dear yoke-fellow by death, or other-wife : 2. resolution of this case of conscience, whether a man may lawfully marry his wives sister? / by Edward Reyner ... (London : Printed by J. T. for Thomas Newbery ..., 1657), by Edward Reyner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A testimony and wholesome advice concerning marriage. ([Dublin? : s.n., 1680]), by Alexander Seaton, William Edmundson, William Bingley, Anne Whitehead, and Mary Elson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Wiltshire wedding betwixt Daniel Doo-well, and Doll the dairy-maid. With the consent of her old father Leather-Coat, and her dear and tender mother Plod-wed. To an excellent north-country tune. Licensed according to order. ([London] : Printed for J[onah]. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street., [between 1684-1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Discourse, of marriage and wiving. (London : Printed by N[icholas] O[kes] for Leonard Becket, and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner-Temple, 1615), by Alexander Niccholes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Admonition--for the necessitie of the presente tyme tyll a furder consultation--to all suche as shall intende hereafter to enter the state of matrimonye godly and agreablye to lawes. ([Oxford : W. Turner, ca. 1630]), by Matthew Parker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sacred contract honoured with a solemne benediction. (Oxford : Printed by Iohn Lichfield, for William Webbe, Ann.D. 1633), by Bartholomew Parsons (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A viewe of mans estate. (Imprinted at London : By [William How for] Richard Iohnes, and are to be solde at his shop ouer against S. Sepulchers Church without Newgate, [1579]), by Thomas Pritchard, Hermann von Wied, and Andrew Kingsmill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lover or A discourse of nuptiall love. (London : Printed by B. Alsop and T. F[awcet] for Rich: Meighen, next to the middle Temple in Fleet-street, 1638), by R.C. Robert Crofts and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of the married and single life. Wherein, by discovering the misery of the one, is plainely declared the felicity of the other. (London : Imprinted [by F. Kingston] for Ionas Man, 1621), by Roland du Jardin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The good wives fore-cast, or, The kind and loving mothers counsel to her daughter after marriage. My daughter dear I pray give ear, this lesson I have learn'd, I'll tell to you, you'l find it true, a penny sav'd, is earn'd. Tune of, Why are my eyes, still flow----ing. &c. This may be printed, R.P. ([London] : Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate., [between 1685-1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Conjugall counsell, or, Seasonable advice, both to unmarried, and married persons directing the first how to enter into marriage estate, and the other how to demeane themselves in the Christian discharge of all such duties as that estate of life blads them to, that God may have glory, the church edification, and themselves and families, present and future comfort, tending much (by the blessing of God) to a through reformation of all the enormities of these evil times / by T.H. ... (London : Printed for John Stafford ..., 1653), by Thomas Hilder (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Antidote against discord betwixt man and wife. (London : printed for Francis Pearse at the Blew-Anchor at the west end of St. Pauls, 1685), by D. B. and J. R. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Oeconomica sacra, or, A parænetical discourse of marriage together with some particular remarks on the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca. (London : Printed for John Salusbury ..., 1685), by J. P. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A bargain for bachelors, or, The best wife in the world for a penny fairly offered to young-men for directing their choice, and to maids for their imitation / by Mrs. Susanna Jesserson. ([London?] : Printed for E.A., 1675), by Susanna Jesserson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms ([London? : s.n.], 1680), by William Lawrence (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Carta de guia de casados. English (London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ... and R. Knaplock ..., 1697), by Francisco Manuel de Mello, Antonio de Guevara, and John Stevens (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Word of advice to the unmarried (London : printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange, 1680), by Stephen Tory (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Heptameron of civill discourses (At London : Printed by [Thomas Orwin for] Richard Iohnes, 1593), by George Whetstone (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bachelor's directory being a treatise of the excellence of marriage, of its necessity, and the means to live happy in it : together with an apology for the women against the calumnies of the men. (London : Printed for Richard Cumberland ..., 1696) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De re uxoria. English. 1677 (London : Printed for John Leigh ... and Tho. Burrell ..., 1677), by Francesco Barbaro (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The batchelor's directory being a treatise of the excellence of marriage, of its necessity, and the means to live happy in it : together with an apology for the women against the calumnies of the men. (London : Printed for Richard Cumberland ... and Benjamin Bragg ..., 1694) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Concubinage and poligamy disprov'd, or, The divine institution of marriage betwixt one man, and one woman only, asserted in answer to a book, writ by John Butler, B.D. for which he was presented as follows : We the grand jury, sworn to enquire for the body of the city of London, on Wednesday, the first day of December, 1697, present one John Butler, for writing and publishing a wicked pamphlet : wherein he maintains concubinage to be lawful, and which may prove very destructive to divers families, if not timely suppress'd. (London : Printed for R. Baldwin ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Colloquia. English. Selections (Imprinted at London : By Henrie Denham, dwelling in Pater noster Rowe, at the signe of the Starre, [1568]), by Desiderius Erasmus and Nicholas Leigh (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter of advice concerning marriage by A.B. (London : Printed for William Miller ..., 1676), by A. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [The passoinate [sic] morrice] ([London : Imprinted by R. Bourne? for Richard Jones, 1593]), by fl. 1593 A. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reflections on Mr. Dunton's leaving his wife. In a letter to himself. ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by John Dunton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mercurius matrimonialis: or, Chapmen for the ladies lately offered to sale by way of auction Procured by one of their own sex. ([London : s.n., 1691]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The order of matrimony (Imprinted at London : By Anthony Scoloker dwelling in the Sauoy rentes. Without Templebarre. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, [1549]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English womens chastity; or, The last Sunday nights frolick: being a very true account of three eminent citizens of London. Who by a strange mistake, unfortunatly pickt up their own wives, last Sunday-evening, in St. James's park; whom they treated with a supper very splendidly, at an eminent tavern, near Charing-Cross: with the manner of their discovery; and of the great confusion of the whole company thereupon. Being, indeed, not only a very pleasant, but also a true relation. ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Marriage asserted in answer to a book entituled Conjugium conjurgium, or, Some serious considerations on marriage : wherein (by way of caution and advice to a friend) its nature, ends, events, concomitant accidents, &c. are examined, by William Seymar, Esq. / written by a country gentleman. (London : Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1674), by Country gentleman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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