by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724)

Thrice happy lovers, may you be
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Language: English 
Our translations:  FRE ITA
Thrice happy lovers, may you be 
  For ever, ever free,
From the tormenting devil, Jealousy.
  From all the anxious Care and Strife,
  That attends a married Life:
  Be to one another true,
  Kind to her as she to you.
And since the Errors of this Night are past,
May he be ever Constant, she for ever Chast.

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