AMANDA.
How did you live together?
BERINTHIA.
Like man and wife, asunder. He loved the country, and 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, acte II, fin.)
Voyez encore dans Vanbrugh, A Journey to London. Rarement la laideur et la corruption de la nature brutale ou mondaine ont été étalées plus à vif. La petite Betty et son frère sont à pendre.
MISTRESS FORESIGHT.
Do you think any woman honest?
SCANDAL.
Yes, several, very honest.—They'll cheat a little at cards, sometimes; but that is nothing.