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 This Woman was not very amiable in her Peron. Whether he at to my Friend Hogarth, or no, I will not determine; but he exactly reembled the young Woman who is pouring out her Mitres’s Tea in the third Picture of the Harlot’s Progres. She was beides a profet Follower of that notable Sect founded by Xantippe of old; by means of which, he became more formidable in the School than her Huband: for to confes the Truth, he was never Mater there, or any where ele, in her Preence.

Tho’ her Countenance did not denote much natural Sweetnes of Temper, yet this was perhaps omewhat oured by a Circumtance which generally poions matrimonial Felicity. For Children are rightly called the Pledges of Love; and her Huband, tho’ they had been married nine Years, had given her no uch Pledges; a Default for which he had no Excue, either from Age or Health, being not yet thirty Years old, and, what they call a jolly, brik, young Man.

Hence aroe another Evil which produced no little Uneaines to the poor Pedagogue,