Caroline Naylor was their servant, said they led a wretched life;
Saw this most distinguished Briton fling a teacup at his wife;
He went out to balls and pleasures, and never once, in ten months’ space,
Sat with his wife, or spoke her kindly. This was the defendant’s case.
Pollock, C. B., charged the jury; said the woman’s guilt was clear:
That was not the point, however, which the jury came to hear;
But the damage to determine which, as it should true appear,
This most tender-hearted husband, who so used his lady dear—
Beat her, kicked her, caned her, cursed her, left her starving, year by year.
Flung her from him, parted from her, wrung her neck, and boxed her ear—