Wife.We are but as dark as we were before; for we were none of us the better for all your Hypocri|tical Shining.Husb.Well, I have done shining, you see; the Darkness be at your Door.It's evident that both meant here, his having left off Family-Worship; and it is apparent, both were come to a dreadful Extremity in their Quarrel.Wife.At my Door! am I the Master of the Fami|ly! don't lay your Sins to my Charge.Husb.No, no; but your own I may; It is the Retrograde Motion of the Moon that causes an E|clipse.Wife.Where all was dark before, there can be no Eclipse.Husb.Your Sin is, that my Light is your Darkness.Wife.That won't excuse you, if you think it a Sin; can you not do what you please without me?Husb.I don't think it a Sin in me to refrain Pub|lick Prayer among those that contemn it, and who re|ject it for my sake; I am forbid to cast Pearls before Swine.Wife.Yes, yes, your Wife and Children are all Swine with you, and are treated like such by you; and because you want an Excuse for Neglect of your Duty, therefore we are all Swine. The Com|parison is something swinish, I think, on your Part.Husb.My Authority is good, the very Comparison the Scripture makes of those that trample Religion under their Feet, and fly in the Faces of those that offer to Officiate: They are Swine in both, for they make Dirt of Religion, and turn again and rent those who offer it; that is, despise them, and assault them, despise them as unworthy; which is the Case exactly.Wife.What Matter is it what I think, can't you pray with them that will bear you?0