Excerpt from Marriage in Epigram: Stings, Flings, Facts, and Fancies From the Thought of Ages<br><br>For ages Hymen has been not less an idol than a knave, and his henchman, Cupid, has shared in his worship and his defamation. Surely their intentions have always been good enough; even matrimonial anarchists admit this; and if many of these good in tentions have turned out paving stones for the nether world well, the more the pity. Mistakes will happen, so don't blame the gods. Cupid has corralled a miscellaneous, ill-assorted aggregation of material, and Hy men has simply done the best he could with it. At least he has tied the knots, and even a mundane court and mundane courts are prone to adjudicate against monopolists would hold that his responsibility ended with that function. The knot once tied, the rest of the enterprise concerns the wedded couple only.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.