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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ...be humoured. Their smiles are so enchanting! And should they frown, who can be angry, when we know the dear wayward syrens will only look the more bewitching, as soon as they are out of their pouts? It is so delightful to see the sun breaking from behind a cloud. L. Vib. Pshaw! When a woman begins to grow old_ Sir Geo. Hush! The sun-'1'he sun never grows ' old. I grant you that formerly there used to be old women: but there are none now! L. V ila. Then you think me a fool for being wretched at my wife's thoughtlessness, caprice, and imper tinence. Sir Geo. No, don't. Every body tells 'us that _ wives were born to be the plague of their husbands. L. Vib. And mine is the greatest of plagues! Sir Geo. What is a wife's duty? To obey her lord and master. 'Tis her marriage promise, and the law binds her to it. She is the minister of his pleasures, the handmaid of his wants, his goods, his chattels, his ' vendible property. L. Vib; Ay: we find the husband may take the wife to market in a halter. Sir Geo. In which I should hope he would afterward hang himself! Asz'de. L. Vib. My lady thinks of nothing but revelling, and racketing, and turning the world upside down! Sir Geo. 'T is a great pity. L. Via. Her tongue is my torment. Sir Geo. The perpetual motion! It never ceases l L. Vib. Then how can you like her company? Sir Geo. She is not my wife. L. Vib. No, or you would not be such good friends. Did she say any thing concerning the mar riage 3 Sir Geo. Oh, yes. She delivered your lordship's kind message. L. Vil. What, that I had pledged my honour? Sir Geo. lrrevocably. L. Vib. I was very rash. Hasty resolutions bring long repentance-She insists that the nuptials shall be public! Sir Geo. Does she, ...