文档介绍：Sketches of Young Couples
Sketches of Young
Couples
Charles Dickens.

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Sketches of Young Couples
AN URGENT REMONSTRANCE, &c
TO THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND,
(BEING BACHELORS OR WIDOWERS,)
THE REMONSTRANCE OF THEIR FAITHFUL FELLOW-
SUBJECT,
SHEWETH,-
THAT Her Most Gracious Majesty, Victoria, by the Grace of God of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the
Faith, did, on the 23rd day of November last past, declare and pronounce
to Her Most Honourable Privy Council, Her Majesty's Most Gracious
intention of entering into the bonds of wedlock.
THAT Her Most Gracious Majesty, in so making known Her Most
Gracious intention to Her Most Honourable Privy Council as aforesaid,
did use and employ the words - 'It is my intention to ally myself in
marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha.'
THAT the present is Bissextile, or Leap Year, in which it is held and
considered lawful for any lady to offer and submit proposals of marriage
to any gentleman, and to enforce and insist upon acceptance of the same,
under pain of a certain fine or penalty; to wit, one silk or satin dress of the
first quality, to be chosen by the lady and paid (or owed) for, by the
gentleman.
THAT these and other the horrors and dangers with which the said
Bissextile, or Leap Year, threatens the gentlemen of England on every
occasion of its periodical return, have been greatly aggravated and
augmented by the terms of Her Majesty's said Most Gracious
communication, which have filled the heads of divers young ladies in this
Realm with certain new ideas destructive to the peace of mankind, that
never entered their imagination before.
THAT a case has occurred in Camberwell, in which a young lady
informed her Papa that 'she intended to ally herself in marriage' with Mr.
Smith of Stepney; and that another, and a very distressing case, has
occurred at Tottenham, in which a young lady not only stated her intention
of allying herse