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 his Paternal Line, by whom he inherits so fair an Estate.

My Lady carries on her Resentment so far, that she won't visit her Husband's Sister, tho' she has married an Earl, because she disdains to rank below her; and as to all the rest of Sir G's Relations, they are looked upon as not worth making a Bow to them, other than she would do to a Country Farmer, that comes to her Ladyship to pay his Rent.

her Intimates, she laments her Misfortune that she should be so dishonoured in her Match; wonders at her self, how she submitted to let such a Fellow come to Bed to her, and is horridly provoked that she has had any Children; for the present she has parted Beds with him a great while; so long, that she thanks she has forgot him in that relation; she made a Political Quarrel with him three Years before, and she swore to him, he should have no more to do with her that Way, she would as soon lie with her Coachman; and she has kept her Vow most sacred: And was it not for some Conveniences of her Way of Living, Equipages, the Mansion House, which is new and fine, and cost fifty thousand Pounds building, and the like, she would feign another Quarrel, and step out of his House too, and then she should be my Lord 's Daughter again, not my Lady, the Wife of a City Knight, which is much at one to her, as if she had been Mrs. , the Shop-keeper's Wife at Winchester, or Mrs. Any-Body; or especially it had been much more honourable to the Family, to have been Lady Mayoress, then, at least, she had been Quality for a Year; and her good