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clean, have a reputation among the neigh-

bours. There’s fuch a one's houfe looks

like a paradise fays one ——it would do

one’s heart good to look at it, cries ano-

ther. And all will grant it is the moft

provident way for a man to fpend but lit-

tle abroad and keep the betttr houfe at

home; and if fo he may well permit his

wife to entertain her friends now and then,

without prejudice to her hufband’s ellate ;

for a glafs of wine taftes as well at home

as abroad; and a capon may be cheaper

dreffed in his own kitchen then at a French

ordinary. And as for women wearing

fine clothes, which fome object againft, I

fay it is for the honour of the nation in

general, and muft be a particular pleafure

to the hufband to fee his wife as fine as her

neighbours.

But there is another pleafure attends

upon matrimony, and that is, if he has

married a wife who has got a relation in

the country, and it is ten to one but fhe

has, for women do not rife out of the

earth like pompions, but their pedigree

had fomewhere or other a beginning. If

the woman has not, perhaps the man has.

And whether heir relations be by the