A Conjugal Caution
SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, having run up a score at Lockit's, absented himself
from the ordinary. In consequence of this, Mrs. Lockit was sent to dun
him and threaten him with an action. He told the messenger that he would
certainly kiss her if she stirred a step in it! On this, the message
being brought, she called for her hood and scarf, and told her husband,
who interposed, that she should see if there was any fellow alive that
had the impudence!--Pr'ythee, my dear, don't be so rash, replied the
good man; you don't know what a man may do in a passion.