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PC.771.091
25 Nov-2 Dec 1771:1782 (255)
ANECDOTE
A lady of spirit, being lately refused by her spouse a suit
of clothes for a ball, sent for a broker and sold him
furniture to the amount of fifty pounds, the sum required.
The husband, on his return, being informed of the affair,
sharply rebuked her; to whom she replied, You have no right
to be angry, Sir, for my disposing of what you freely gave
me possession, when I married you, in these solemn words,
With all my worldly goods I thee endow. The gentleman,
whether from conviction or shame, sent for the broker,
returned the fifty pounds with an acknowledgement, and the
lady now no sooner asks than hath, as she always backs the
request with a whisper in the ear, I must have these things,
Sir, or shall I send for the broker.
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