[352]Congreve, "The Way of the World," III. 5.
[353]Ibid. IV.
[354]Congreve, "The Double-dealer," II. 5.
[355]Congreve, "The Way of the World."
[356]Ibid. II. 6.
[357]Ibid. III. 11.
[358]Congreve, "The Way of the World," IV. 5.
[359]Ibid. IV. 6.
[360]Amanda: "How did you live together?" Berinthia: "Like man and wife, asunder.—He loved the country, I the town. He hawks and hounds, I coaches and equipage. He eating and drinking, I carding and playing. He the sound of a horn, I the squeak of a fiddle. We were dull company at table, worse a-bed. Whenever we met, we gave one another the spleen; and never agreed but once, which was about lying alone."—Vanbrugh, "Relapse," Act II. ad fin.
Compare Vanbrugh, "A Journey to London." Rarely has the repulsiveness and corruption of the brutish or worldly nature been more vividly displayed. Little Betty and her brother. Squire Humphrey, deserve hanging.