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drunk, and beat their wives. What a miserable life is that Jaek, end what do I know but you might be as bad to me? what do know but you, like them, might get drunk every night, and beat me black and blue before morning! I do assure you Jack, that if I thought that would be the case, I would rather scrab floors and scour sauce-pans as long as I live. But perhaps you would not he so bad; for on the other hand there is Will Copper the brazier, and Jack Trotter, the assman, who are both happy with their wives; they are both home-bringing husbands, and have every night a hot joint of meat and a pot of beer, I am not yet certain what I should do; but as I am fond for a walk to Horuses. I will meet you at the Shepherd an Shepherdess on Sunday after dinner, and then we shall talk more of the matter.- I am, dear Jack, your obedient servant.
From a young Lady to a Gentleman complaining of Indifference.
Sir-However light you can make of promises, yet I am foolish enough to consider them as something more than trifles; and am likewise induced to believe that the man who thus volutarily break, a promise, will not pay much regard to an oath; and if so, in what light must I consider your conduct? Did I not promise faithfully to be yours, and had you no other reason for soliciting, than merely the gratifcation of your vanity: a brutal gratification indeed, to triumph over the weakness of a woman, whose greatest fault was that she loved you. I say loved you for it was in consequence of that passion that I first consented to become yours. Has your conduct sir, been consistent with my submission, or even with your own solemn profession? is it consistent with the character of a gentleman, first to obtain a woman's consent, and then afterwards brag
