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THE ALIENATED MANOR: A COMEDY.

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live in: would I were out of it!—O woman, woman!

Enter Isaac.

What do you want?

ISAAC.

Please your honour, you are wanted in the justice chamber.

CHARVILLE.

What's the matter?

ISAAC.

Goody Bullock is come to swear the peace against her husband: he has beaten her all black and blue.

CHARVILLE.

And he has served her right. Let him beat her black and yellow next time.

ISAAC.

Why, please your honour, she is a good peaceable woman.

CHARVILLE.

Out, fool! she is a hypocrite, and a liar, and a jade. Let him beat her all the colours of the rainbow, an he will.[Exit.

ISAAC (looking after him in a bewildered astonishment).

He's surely bereft of his wits altogether. To call poor old Goody Bullock all them bad names,