, which is founded upon that fine Distress of a Virtuous Woman's marrying a second Husband, while her first was yet living. The first Husband, who was suppos'd to have been dead, returning to his House after a long Absence, raises a noble Perplexity for the Tragick Part of the Play. In the mean while, the Nurse and the Porter conferring upon the Difficulties that would ensue in such a Case, honest
Sampson
thinks the matter may be easily decided, and solves it very judiciously, by the old Proverb, that if his first Master be still living,
The Man must have his Mare again
. There is
in my time which has so much surprized and confounded the greatest part of my honest Countrymen, as the present Controversy between Count
Rechteren
and Monsieur
Mesnager