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NYG(B.733.005
6-13 Aug 1733:11 (407)
. . . [31 lines discussing the advantages of a scolding-wife
instead of a whining complainer or discontented wife.]
A certain French poet it seems could be so calm in the midst
of his wife's tempest, as to write the following lines upon
it. In English thus,
He who hath not met eyes amaz'd beheld
The Aegean Sea with foaming fury swell'd
Raging against it's banks: Or with pow'r
The cracking thunder shivers some huge towers.
. . . [13 more lines]
The reader perhaps will hardly believe me if I tell him
that this is nothing but musick, and that I think 'tis a
pitty a man can be allow'd to keep but one instrument in his
house at a time; and if there were not a law against
poligamy, I should be for marrying the two girls afore-
mentioned, in order to compleat my consort. I am, Sir,
Yours, &c.
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