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A New and DIVERTING DIALOGUE, (illegible text)

Wife. I Wonder where my bungling, cob ſkul, ſapnodle, rambles at this time of nigh among his drunken companions I'll warrant you Well, I'll ſtroll the ſtreets about to find him out ſome gin-ſhop, or ale houſe, or other entertai this animal, whilſt I, and his poor children we bread. In ſhort I'll find out, and if I meet kind ſpark by the way, I'll kill two birds with : ſtone, graft a pair of large horns upon his heay and it he gives me a teſter, then I ſhall have for thing to drink tea with my goſſips and neighbou [Criſpin, by this time, at a noted houſe for hul ming of beer, was thumping the pot upon the tal calling for liquor ] Landlord be quicker, Bring us more liquor, We ſhall never be hanged for debt. (She hears him, and in the goes.] "Hey-day ! Mr Mend-all, Mr Spend all, Mr Go for nothing at all, bad in bed and worſe up; ra ing raving, roaring for more liquor, whilſt I, your poor children at home, have neither fie candle, but in a ſtarving condition. Huſband. Good wife be pacified, don't exp yourſelf and me before company Theſe are all cuſtomers, I work for them daily, and they help to baſineſs. W. Out you filly Oaf ! they'll ſpeak you fain your face, while you treat them, and laugh in the fleeves at your folly when they leave you.