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life now as you did before you married ?

but if you do, then fay my name is not

Margery. As I have got you faft in the

hands of matrimony, I will make you to

know what it is to be married. I warrant

you ; therefore to work, you rafcal, and

take fpecial care that what I have brought

is not confumed, for if you do, what is to

become of your wife and children, if you

are able to get any.

Now Simon looked like one that had

neither fenfe or reafon, but ftood amazed,

as if there had been an army of Billingfgate

fhrews. Recollecting, however, what he

had formerly heard about fcolds he mut-

tered to himfelf, Udfvager, I think I have

got a woeful one now. What is that you

fay, firrah, faid fhe. Nothing my dear

wife, but that what you fay I allow to be

true. And fo.taking his bag and his bottle,

went forward to his daily labour. But as he

came towards the lower end of the town,

he chanced to meet with old Jobfon a cob-

ler, a brave merry blade, who loved a cup

of good ale. What ! honeft Simon, fays

Jobfon, I am heartily glad to fee you ; for

fince our laft meeting l hear that thou art

married, and fo I wifh thee much happinefs