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 occassioned through foud love, and forward kindneſs

14. What can be worſe in a houſe, than a horned good-wife, and a hummil good-man, a ſinged cat, and burnt dog, having nothing elſe but diſpeace and a portion, which is perfect poverty.

5. Here-the good-wife’s tongue is a law, and the tongs the ſceptre of her ſupremacy, the children honour the father, as a cur doth a cow from a kail-yard. The wife with whiſpering voice calls him cuckold, and all our children may ſay amen, our mother’s a whore.

16. And this is the ſweeteſt of all muſic in the ears of Old Nick; when the good wife’s paſſion like a flame breaks out againſt her huſband, and he with vicious blows and impous rage gives her a double downcome which is commonly called next to murder, if not ſo.

17. Now are the flames of fleshly love quenched, and their charity towards each other, become as cold as clay; their former love is ſmothered to death in the ſmoke of their helliſh wrath, and pride is fallen into the bottomleſs pit, the place from whence it came.

ADVERTISEMENT Oysz, Oytz, Oycz. E it known to all poor, proud, and prideful people that they may mourn till the ſurrow mend them, for deacon Pride, the Devil’s dominie, who is fallen from the top of the high tower of Vanity, into the deep ditch of diſgrace; his clothing being of has licked up all the motes of miſery and on the one ſide, and diſgrace on the other; before him, and behind him a at his buttocks becauſe they were bare.

And it is me, and many others, that he shall never have confidence to ſet up his daft-like face among honeſt well-thinking people any more on the country; ſo we of the Tinclarian Sect will oppoſe his doctrine, and ſend the Dominie to be his Diviner.

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