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CG-NL.767.013
10 Apr 1767:11 (178)
To the Printer. I am an honest tradesman, who never meant
harm to any body, and my affairs went on smoothly while that
of a batchelor; but of late I have met with some
difficulties, of which I take the freedom to give you an
account.
. . . [Several paragraphs on the lavish spending habits of
his wife]
. . . having stole a wedding, took her home to my house,
where we were not in quite so poor a condition as the couple
described in the Scotch song, who had neither pot nor pan,
but four bare legs together; for I had a house tolerably
furnished for an ordinary man. . .
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