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[ 187 ] braiding her with the Particulars, but told her, that she had revealed them all her self in her Sleep, and that she had said so and so to him, upon his making little short Answers to her; and offering some Questions, and that, in short, she had betrayed her own Intrigues; front whence, he charged her openly with being Dishonest, and with that Person also, and that before her Marriage to him as well as after, alledging that it appeared from her own Mouth. Nor was he prudent enough to conceal the Thing, and to let it lie as a private Feud between themselves; but he told it openly and publickly among the Neighbours, and in almost all Company. But he had the worst of the Quarrel, though he had the better of the Fact, and that by his want of Conduct too.

Women's Wit, they say, never fails them at a Pinch; 'tis easy to imagine, that his Wife was in the utmost Confusion at the discovery of the Thing as it was, and especially while she was at a loss to know which way he came by his Information, for though she might easily have supposed that she must have spoke aloud in her Sleep, yet as she had never known her self to do so before, she did not think of it at first, but thought he had dealt with the Devil, and that he must have been with some Conjurer, who, as she had been told, could, by the help of the Devil, first make People dream of what they thought fit to inject into their Thoughts, and then tell of it to whom they thought fit.

filled her with Indignation at her Husband, for having, as she affirmed, bewitched her, and employed the Devil to betray her into Mischief, and then betray that Mischief; and