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14. What can be worſe in a houſe than a horned goodwife, and hammil goodman, a ſinged cat, and burnt dog, having nothing elſe but diſpeace and a poet's portion, which is perfect poverty.
15 Here the goodwife's tongue is the law and the tongs the ſcepter of her ſupremacy, the children honour the father as a cur doth a cow from a kail yard. The wife with a whiſpering voice calls him a cuckold, and all her children may ſay Amen, our Mother's a whore.
16. And this is the ſweeteſt of all muſic in the ears of old Nick, when the goodwife's paſſion, like a ſlime, breaks out against her huſband; and he with vicious blow (illegible text)nd impious rage gives her a double down come which commonly called next to murder, if not ſo.
17. Now are the flumes of fleſhly love quenched, and their charity towards one another become as cold as the clay, their former love is ſmothered to death in the ſmoke of their helliſh wrath, and pride is fallen into the bottomleſs pit, the place from whence it came, that all their high heads, and Gezies are fallen.
Advertiſement. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez.
BE it know to all poor, poor and pitiful people that they may mourn till the ſorrow mend them for deacon pride, the devil's dominie, who has fallen from the top of the high tower of vanity, into the deep ditch of diſgrace; his cloathing being of ſoft butter(illegible text) has licked up all the mots of miſery, diſdain on the one ſide and diſgrace on the other; ſhame and reproach before him, and behind him a tribe of boys, hiſſing at his buttocks becauſe they were bare
And it is hoped by me and many others, that he ſhall never have confidence to ſet up his daft like face amongſt (illegible text) well thinking people any more in this country; for we of the Tinclarion ſect will oppoſe ⟨his⟩ doctrine, and ſend the dominie to his director.
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