HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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there he fettled, and, liking the place, married a wife
in the country. The woman he very much loved, and
defiring by all means a mutual affeaion from her,
obferved her ftill melancholy, with down-call eyes,
often fighing, and betraying other figns of a difcon-
tented mind. But when her hufband enquired the
caufe of her affliEton, affirming that he was not wanting
in any inftance of love and refpeet,—Yes, replies the
woman, are not you a notable diffembler of love ?`
D'ye think I don't know how defpicable I am to you ?`
and immediately fell into a fit of fighing and crying.
The man, quite aftonifhed, began to embrace her, and
perfift in afking her if he had offended in anything;:
that perhaps he might, but would make her amends
for the future ? In anfwer to this, the faid, Where
are your blows and beatings, the proofs of your love ?
Sure it is, that in this country they are the only in-
flances of the care and affeaion of hufbands. When
Jordanes heard this, his amazement at firft hindered
his laughter, but foon after, when both were over, he
thought it for his intereft to ufe her as the had pre-
fcribed, and not long after took an occafion to beat
her ; and the growing into good humour, by the in-
fluence of the cudgel, from that time firft began to
love-