5 A. Nothing but ale and ill wicked wives. Q. How was it abolifhed ? A. Becaufe thofe that went to it once would go to it no more. Q. For what reafon ? A. Becaufe there was no money to be got for them, but fair barter, wife for wife, and he who put away his wife for one fault, got another with two as bad. Q. What was the reafon that in thofe days a man could put away his wife for piffing the bed and not for fh--—g it ? A. Becaufe he could fhute it away with his foot and lye down. Q. What is the reason now a days that men court, caft, marry, and re- marry fo many wives, and keep but only one in public at laft ? A. Becaufe private marriages are become as common as fmuggling, and cuckolding the kirk no more thought of than to ride a mile or two on his neighbour’s mare ! men get will and wale of wives, the beft portion, and propereft perfon is preferred, the firft left, the weak to the worft, and fhe
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