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  A Receipt to regain the lot Affections of a Wife, which hath never been known to fail in the mot deperate Caes.

HE Captain was made large Amends for the unpleaant Minutes which he paed in the Converation of his Wife (and which were as few as he could contrive to make them) by the pleaant Meditations he enjoyed when alone.

Thee Meditations were entirely employed on Mr. Allworthy’s Fortune; for firt, he exercied much Thought in calculating, as well as he could, the exact Value of the whole; which Calculations he often aw Occaion to alter in his own Favour: And econdly, and chiefly, he pleaed himelf with intended Alterations in the Houe and Gardens, and in projecting many other Schemes, as well for Improvement of the Etate, as of the Grandeur of the Place, For this Purpoe he applied himelf to the Studies of Architecture and Gardening, and read over many Books on both thee Subjects; for thee Sciences, indeed, employed his whole