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Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes.
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CHAP.V.

The Whole Hiſtory of the Conſidering Cap, ſet forth at large, for the Benefit of all whom it may concern.

THE great Reputation Mrs. Margery acquired by compoſing Differences in Families, and eſpecially, between Man and Wife, induced her to cultivate that Part of her Syſtem of Morality and Œconomy, in order to render it more extenſively uſeful. For this Purpoſe, ſhe contrived what ſhe called a Charm for the Paſſions; which was a conſidering Cap, almoſt as large as a Grenadier's, but of three equal Sides; on the firſt of which was written, I may be wrong; on the ſecond, It is fifty to one but you are;

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