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Eater Track and Legs and to them Snap and Plath, ruck, Think, Mr. Leg, your last Voyage was very prosperous. When is it you intend for Sea again ? Eng. Why, look ye, Mr. Truck, you don’t hear me blame Fortune, nor Curse the Winds, and that’s as much as to say, I have no reason to Complain. I am hure my Owners cannot, but Confess I made it a very advantagious Voyage to them . But yet a Man’s no more Expelfed for it, than if he had ever for the Navigation, and come into the Channel Keel uppermost. . Why, what’s the matter? Have they ‘s anything unfairly by you, that makes you be so unsatisfied with ’em? ig, Yes, I think they did, or Why should t kehem? They pretended to provea eto their great dam ould they allow my Accounts for spences a fond while; but asoon as clear of ’em, 1 teld 'ers my Com ang that I never Respected fach Drage ns, bidding them do what they pleas’d neir Stngeith Bitch of a Pink, for the De fiorld Sail in her again before it would. Truck, Then she was not taken from you, but you turn’d your if out of hers that I must contest of the tu more Honour , fowisting her. But pray, Mr. Log, Wife do? ihoughe met ei ther day with a Belly up to her Mouth, WE say tha you, you make as good use of your 7 you are on Shear, towards the im provement of your Family, as any Marsinell er of the truth are, 1 do think gas fruitful s W Woman as an Fellow would desire to lie by. The first : none but Six-Months with i ngext she had made amends for it,for went Twelve-Months with that,which Mother Midnight gave very good Reason for, accor ding to my Prehensions For, says she, if as an lures shee Adonths of her time, in going with the Child she always recovers it in the nest. Which, according to the rule of Addition, you know, is very plain. For add Twelve to Six, and skes Eighteen, which, you know, is the eaf both, ». But pray, My, Log, what do you mean oy your Wives going a Twelve-Month with one Child? That’s very improbable. Besides, now can you tell the went to Long ! Zog. Tell! Adthearthkins! If I should not tell, who should! J Jefe her and went on Board, I very well remember, in Christmas Week; and you know ’tis always our Custom to take 2 kind farewel of our Wives; and re turn’d again Christmas-Eve was Twelve-month, and she tumbled into the Straw upon Christmas Bay, and brought me the thampingest Boy to Town that ever you see new born since your Eyes were open. Nay, I am sure it could never have been so big, if she had not gone three Months longer with it than what's usual. Truck, Sam affraid your Wife imposes upon you. You must consider, other Men are able to get her with Child as well as you, if she’ ll but consent to the Tryal, fog. Ya,ya, that’s true. But hang her, I ans fare the Jade’s honest. I know she’s a Woman of that Semper, that she hates to do anything that’s bafe behind a Mans Back, Nay, as Sim ply as I fit here, I am certain she Loves me so very hugely, that she would sooner suffer her self to the keelhauldj or hang’d up at Yard-Anna, rather then she would make me a Cuckold, or do anything to abuse me when I’m from her. Sued. I think, Sir, you are very much in the Right on’t, to have so good an Opinion of your Wife. To be sure it obliges her to be the more Jun and Loving to you. But pray what Voyage was You gone, when your good Woman went so long with her Burthen? Eg, I was gone to the West-Indies, Where (the Devil take ill luck) I knock’d a good Ship on the Head before I got back again. Snap. Then, I suppose, you have heard some of the New-England Saints Sing-Psalms whilst they’ve been Stealing of Log-wood? Log. Ya, ya, that I have; and do Twenty worse Tricks than that, for all they are so Religious. Snap. Tis a wonder to me, that you, who occustom your selves to such long Voyages, should ever think of Marrying 5 and run thro’ all those Dangers and Difficulties to maintain a Woman in Idleness, whose Company you don’t enjoy above a Month in a Year. Do you think a Mistress, when you’re a Shore, would not be much cheaper to you ? Log. That’s cruz, *twould be much Cheaper, but a Mistress would not be half so usefull as a Wife, for this Reason, You must know, we have a Custome at Sea, every Saturday Night . Drink a health to’ our Wives, and he that has never a one to remember, looks as simply, d’ye feen as a Maid at a Gossiping, when the Marry’d Women
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Scottish Mercury
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Jun 07, 1699
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