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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.