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( 7 ) to make you look big, and formidable, though God knows, (as the Poet ſays)

If women were as little, as they're good,

A peas cod ſhell would make them cloak and hood.

W. I'm ſure you will never be good, while you obſerve the ſaying of every ragged Poet, the divine Oracles tell you, I am bone of your bone, and fleſh of your fleſh, and was you not an unnatural monſter, you would regard me as ſuch.

H. Hold good wife, be not ſo hot, I muſt own you were made of one of my ribs, which was crooked, and that appears in your temper to this day for it is natural for you to be crooked, contrary, ſtubborn, ſelf-willed, head-Strong, and turbulent.

W. Heyday! will you never have done? We ſhall have a diſh of rails for ſupper If I ſhould let you go on, you would run yourſelf quite out of breath; am not I your equal?

H. But I am your head and will be your maſter.

W. You may abroad, but I'll be miſtreſs at home.

H. You ſhall of the diſhes and trenchers, but never of me; beſides you are perjurd if you deſire it, for at your marriage, you promiſed to honour and obey me.

W. I did, but you promiſed to love and cheriſh me, and not to hector and domineer over me. I am your yokefellow, but not your ſlave; your equal, not your veſſel, your companion by day, and your bedfellow at night, the mother of your children, and guide of your ſervants, and therefore I'm worthy of an honour.

H. I own all this to be true, and yet the breeches belong to me. Is not a man lord of the creation? and do not I toil and labour to ſubſiſt you and yours, and do not all hardſhips, law-ſuits dangers of war, and all other difficulties. fall to my share, if you abuse anyone, don't I ſuffer for it? may, if you get a baſtard, muſt not I father it?' I work for