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MS-B.772.035
7 May 1772:473 (2/64)
It is reported, that many people in town are greatly
disturbed, at the unnatural behaviour of a certain young
gentleman of a high Tory family, toward his wife: A most
amiable and well educated young lady, the eldest daughter of
a worthy and patriotic gentleman of this town, whose family
the young gentleman has lately I hear prohibited his wife
from visiting; which brutish act, I am credibly informed has
had such an effect upon her delicate mind, that has
occasioned her with floods of tears to express herself as
being equally the unhappiest of all women, whether she does
or does not visit her most tender parents.
It is dangerous in our day for men to treat their wives
ill, for the vulgar often take it in their heads as they
phrase it, to ride such persons skimminton, but this method
oftener produced bad than good effect.
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