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 it pleae your Worhip, there never was any poor Woman o injured as I am by that bae Man: For this is not the only Intance of his Falfhood to me. No, may it pleae your Worhip, he hath injured my Bed many’s the good time and often. I could have put up with his Drunkennes and Neglect of his Buines, if he had not broke one of the acred Commandiments. Beides, if it had been out of Doors I had not mattered it o much; but with my own Servant, in my own Houe, under my own Roof; to defile my own chate Bed, which to be ure he hath with his beatly tinking Whores. Yes, you Villain, you have defiled my own Bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the Truth. It is very likely, an’t pleae your Worhip, that I hould bullock him.—I have Marks enow about my Body to hew of his Cruelty to me. If you had been a Man, you Villain, you would have corned to injure a Woman in that Manner, But you an’t half a Man, you know it.—Nor have you been half a Huband to me. You need run after Whores, you need, when I'm ureAnd ince he provokes me, I am ready, an’t pleae your Worhip, to take my bodily Oath, that I found them