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, could not now be long prevented. And accordingly the very next night, the husband and wife had not been long in bed together, before a torm aroe, as if drums, guns, wind and thunder were all roaring together. Villain, rogue, whore, beat, cheat, all reounded at the ame intant, and were followed by cures, imprecations and threats, which oon waked the poor great-grandon in the garret; who immediately ran down tairs into his great-grandmother’s room. He found her in the midt of it in her hift, with a handful of hirt in one hand, and a handful of hair in the other, tamping and crying, I am undone, cheated, abued, ruined, robbed by a vile jade, impotor, whore.—What is the matter, dear Madam, anwered the youth; O child, replied he, undone! I am married to one who is no man. My husband? a woman, a woman, a woman. Ay, aid the grandon, where is he?—Run away, gone, aid the great-grandmother, and indeed o he was: For no ooner was the fatal dicovery made, than the poor female bridegroom, whipt on her breeches, in the pockets of which, he had towed all the money he could, and lipping on her hoes, with her coat, waite-coat and tockings in her hands, had made the bet of her way into the treet, leaving almot one half of her hirt behind, which the enraged wife had tore from her back.

As Mrs. Hamilton well knew that an adventure of that kind would oon fill all Dublin, and that it was impoible for her to remain there undicovered, he hatened away to the Key, where by good fortune, he met with a hip jut bound to Dartmouth, on board which he immediately went, and ailed out of the harbour, before her puruers could find out or overtake her. She