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 ruhed upon her all at once. The Satisfaction her Hufband expreed in the Departure of Jenny, appeared now to be only diembled; again, in the ame Intant, to be real, and yet to confirm her Jealouy, as proceeding from Satiety, and a hundred other bad Caues. In a Word, he was convinced of her Huband’s Guilt, and immediately left the Aembly in Confuion.

As fair Grimalkin, who, though the younget of the Feline Family, degenerates not in Feroity from the elder Branches of her Houe, and, though inferior in Strength, is equal in Fiercenes to the noble Tyger himelf, when a little Moue, whom it hath long tormented in Sport, ecapes from her Clutches for a while, frets, colds, growls, wears; but if the Trunk, or Box, behind which the Moue lay hid, be again removed, he flies like Lightning on her Prey, and, with envenomed Wrath, bites, cratches, mumbles, and tears the little Animal.

Not with les Fury did Mrs. Partridge fly on the poor Pedagogue. Her Tongue, Teeth, and Hands, fell all upon him at once. His Wig was in an Intant torn from his Head, his Shirt from his Back, and