a-bed together, What, you have forgot, I ſuppoſe, when you beat me into a Fit, and made the Blood run down my Forehead, becauſe I only civilly taxed you with your Adultery! but I can prove it by all my Neighbours. You have almoſt broke my Heart, you have, you have.”
Here Mr. Allworthy interrupted, and begged her to be pacified, promiſing her that ſhe ſhould have Juſtice; then turning to Partridge, who ſtood aghaſt, one half of his Wits being hurried away by Surpriſe and the other half by Fear, he ſaid, he was ſorry to ſee there was ſo wicked a Man in the World. He aſſured him, that his prevaricating and lying backward and foreward was a great Aggravation of his Guilt: For which, the only Attonement he could make was by Confeſſion and Repentance. He exhorted him, therefore, to begin by immediately confeſſing the Fact, and not to perfiſt in denying what was ſo plainly proved againſt him, even by his own Wife.
Here, Reader, I beg your Patience a Moment, while I make a juſt Compliment to the great Wiſdom and Sagacity of our Law, which refuſes to admit the Evidence of a Wife for or againſt her Huſband. This,ſays
