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A Spaniard being a Board a Ship in a Storm, the Captain commanded that the most cumbersom and heavy Things should be thrown over-board to ease the Vessel. Thereupon the Spaniard took his Wife, and would have thrown her into the Sea, and as the Captain ask’d him the reason of it, he answered: I have nothing that’s more heavy and cumbersom to me than my Wife, and so I perform your Command upon her.
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Un Espagnol ètant dans un Vaisseau qui fut surpris de la Tempête, le Capitaine fit commandement de jetter en Mer les choses qui incommodoient & pesoient le plus pour soulager le Navire. Aussitôt l’Espagnol prit sa Femme, & la vouloit jetter dans l’Eau; & comme le Capitaine lui demanda la raison de ce procedé, il repondit; Je n’ai rien qui me pese & qui m’incommode plus que ma Femme, c’est pourquoi j’execute sur elle vôtre commandement.