RECRUITING-SERGEANT;

OR THE NEW

MATRIMONIAL TAT-TOO,

FOR

OLD BACHELORS.

Inviting all both big and small,
A lovely wife to take;
Nor longer lead-Oh! shameful deed!
The life of worthless rake.

BY THE REV. M. L. WEEMS,
Lodge No. 50, Dumfries.

Hartford, Ct.

PUBLISHED BY ANDRUS & JUDD.

1833.

Seal.

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Year

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixteenth day of December in the fortyof the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1816, Mason L. Weems, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit:

"Hymen's Recruiting Sergeant: or the New Matrimonial Tat-too, for the Old Bachelors.

Inviting all, both big and small,

A lovely wife to take;

Nor longer lead-Oh! shameful deed!

The life of worthless rake..

With some Elegant Songs. Adorned with a handsome
Frontispiece.

"Tis madness sure, you must agree,

To lodge alone at thirty-three!

For writings, penn'd by heav'n, have shown,
That man can ne'er be blest alone.

FRENEAU.

By the Rev. M. L. Weems, Lodge No. 50, Dumfries.
God prosper long, Columbia dear,

In plenty, love and peace;

And grant henceforth, that bach'lors old,
'Mongst pretty maids may cease!!"

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement o. learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.-And also to the act, entitled, 'An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the

District of Pennsylvania.

SINGLES,

WHETHER MASCULINES OR FEMININES, THROUGHOUT

THE UNITED STATES.

DEAR GENTLES,

I AM very clear that our Yankee heroes are made of, at least, as good stuff as any the best of the beef or frog-eating gentry on t'other side of the water. But neither this, nor all our fine speeches to our President, nor all his fine speeches to us again, will ever save us from the British gripe or Carmagnole hug, while they can outnumber us, ten to one! No, my friends, 'tis population, 'tis population alone, can save our bacon.

List then, ye Bach'lors, and ye Maidens fair,
If truly you do love your country dear;
O, list with rapture to the great decree,
Which thus in Genesis you all may see:
"Marry, and raise up soldiers, might and main,"
Then laugh, you may, at England, France and Spain.

Wishing you all, the hearing ear-the be

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lieving heart and a saving antipathy to

apes,

I remain yours, dear Gentles,
In the bonds of

Love and Matrimony,

M. L. WEEMS

HYMEN'S

RECRUITING SERGEANT.

And the Lord said, "It is not good for the man to be alone."—Gen. ii. 15.

No, verily, nor for the woman neither. But, what says the preacher? Why, "I will," says Paul, (and Paul, you know, was a sound divine) "that the young women marry, and love their husbands; and raise up good hildren." "Tis well said, most noble, patristic Paul! May the children of Columbia hearken to thy counsel! that there be no more old Bachelors in our land, like scrubby oaks, standing selfishly alone, while our maidens, like tender vines lacking support, sink to the ground; but that, united in wedlock's blest embraces, they may grow up together as the trees of the Lord, whose summits reach the skies, and their branches overspread the nations, making their country the pride and glory of the earth!