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- E M I L I A Yes, a dozen:
and as many to th'vantage as would
- store the world they played for.
- But I do think it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall. Say that they slack their duties,
- And pour our treasures into foreign laps;
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,
- Or scant our former having in despite -
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
- Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
- Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell,
- And have their palates both for sweet and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
- When they change us for others? Is it sport?
- I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is't frailty that thus errs?
- It is so too. And have not we affections, me
- Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
- Then let them use us well: else let them know
- The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
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