have their Heart’s Bloods out of their Bodies.
After much Admonition for what was paſt, and much good Advice to Mr. Partridge for his future Behaviour, the Company, at length, departed, and left the Huſband and Wife to a perſonal Conference together, in which Mr. Partridge ſoon learned the Cauſe of all his Sufferings.
CHAP. V.
Containing much Matter to exerciſe the Judgment and Reflection of the Reader.
Believe it is a true Obſervation, that few Secrets are divulged to one Perſon only; but certainly, it would be next to a Miracle, that a Fact of this Kind ſhould be known to a whole Pariſh, and not tranſpire any farther.
And, indeed, a very few Days had paſt, before the Country, to uſe a common Phraſe, rung of the Schoolmaſter of Little Baddington; who was ſaid to have beaten his Wife in the moſt cruel Manner. Nay, in ſome Places, it was reported he had mur- dered
