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THE Sixteenth Real Comfort OF Matrimony,
BUt forsooth, a man has a fine Estate, and a fine Wife, and a fine Portion; and this Wife has a fine wit, fine conditions, and fine caresses,—but—the Devil's i'these Buts.—they come in so confoundedly at the but-end of a commendation, that they spoil all.—For this fine Woman is so addicted to Lantraloo, and Back-gammon, that she makes a perfect Speirings Ordinary of her House. No sooner is the cloath taken a∣way, but another clean cloath must be spread; and then out come the Cards or the Tables; and there she sits from after dinner, till one, two, three, four a clock i'the morning, day after day, night after night, consuming and wasting her fine Por∣tion, till she begins to prey upon the main stock. And this is a parlous grievance, a