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 which gave her, her Coup de Grace in les than a Month; when he left her Sufferings to be avenged by Heaven, though they were diregarded by Men, from whom he could find no Redres, her Huband never having beaten her, nor threatened her Life, though he took all other Methods to break her Heart.

Cae III. The next Cae I hall relate is very hort, coniting of few Particulars. A young Lady poet of a coniderable Fortune in Land and Money, married a Gentleman, in whom he had uch full Trut and Confidence, that he made no Reerve to herelf, but flung her whole Fortune with her Peron entirely into his Power. As he had no Fortune of his own, it was a fine thing to him to be mater of an Etate; he launched out into the mot extravagant Expences, but oon finding ome Frugality neceary, he thought fit to confine his Wife in her Country Houe, with the bare Allowance of the neceary Supports of Life, and one Servant to attend her, who was alo her Jailer. In this Confinement he lived, till it pleaed that Being, who alone had Power, to et her Free.

Cae IV. The next Intance I hall produce, is the Cae of Mr. Veezey, tryed at the Old Bailey, where it was proved that he ﬁned