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 given her for it; and with what Patience he had born it: How just it was for him to say, that he could bear it no longer, and that he was resolved to use her as she deserved. Then, turning to his Wife, who still upbraided him with marrying her for her Money: He said, 'tis very true, Madam, I did so; and who the Devil would have married you for any thing else? He added, that if she would find any One to take his Bargain off of his Hands, he would return all the Money again, to be rid of her: And if she could not, since she had taken him, and he was unhappily bound to stand to the Agreement, he insisted, she should act the Part of a Wife, not of a Termagant; of a Gentlewoman, not a Billinsgate, and that, since she had taken him, let her Fortune be what it will, he expected to be used as well, as if he had taken her upon an equal Foot, otherwise he is sold to her for a Slave, which he did not understand to be in the Contract.

revil'd him upon this, with his taking her Money with design to Abuse her; he reproaches her with giving him her Money and her Person too, upon a worse Occasion; he tells her, he could have lived without her Money better than she could live without a Man; that he only hired himself out to her to be her Servant, (he called it by a harder Name) and that he had earned all her Money by lying with her, which a Porter would hardly have done cheaper.

is true, this was Bitter: But there were two Misfortunes, on her Side, attending it.

she extorted it from him. And,