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the henpecked husband

curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in life,

the crouching vassal to a tyrant wife!

who has no will but by her high permission,

who has not sixpence but in her possession;

who must to he, his dear friend's secrets tell,

who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.

were such the wife had fallen to my part,

i'd break her spirit or i'd break her heart;

i'd charm her with the magic of a switch,

i'd kiss her maids, and kick the perverse bitch.