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Here was a Man, a Long time ago,that had got a Shrew to his Wife, and there could be No Quiet in the Houe for her, The Husband was Willing however to make the Bet of a Bad Game, and o for Experiment Sake, he ent her away for a While to her Fathers. When he came a little after to take her Home again, Prethee Sweet-heart (ays he) How go Matters in the Houe where thou haft been? Introth, ays he, they go I know not How: But there's None of the Family, you mut know, can Endure Me: No not o much as the very Hinds and Plough-men; I could Read it in the Faces of Them. Ah Wife! ays the Husband, If People that Rie Early and come Home Late, and are all Day out of your Sight, cannot be Quiet for ye, what a Cae is your Poor Husband in, that mut Spend his Whole Life in your Company.