[ 202 ]
might have been both Beggars. This being the Case, they parted, but with mutual Assurances however of AfFection, and of a farther Union, if the Uncle could be brought to any compliance.
But this was not all, for now the Uncle proposes the new Match to him, and sends him to wait upon the Lady. He had, with great difficulty, complied with the old Gentleman in the quitting the first Lady, who was Mistress of a thousand good Qualities, as well as of a good Fortune. But when he came to this new proposed Creature, his Stomach turned at the very Sight of her: She was not deformed indeed, but far from handsome; she had neither Wit or Manners, good Humour or good Breeding, beauty of Body or beauty of Mind; in a word, she was every way disagreeable, only that she had a vast Fortune,
However, the Uncle, that was as Arbitrary in the Negative before, was as Tyrannick in the Affirmative now; and without troubling you with the many Disputes between the Uncle and the Nephew upon that Head; his Entreaties, his humble Petitions against the Match, declaring (as he himself said) to his Uncle, that he had much rather be hang'd; yet he obliged him to take her, and take her he did, being loth to lose an Estate of near Two thousand Pounds a Year, besides Money, and, which was worse, having no other Dependence in the World.
After he was married, that is to say, coupled, for he often declared 'twas no lawful Marriage, but a Violence upon him; he made as bad a Husband as any Woman that knows she has nothing to be beloved for, and knows theMan
