‘Tis a much harder Thing to please two Wives, than two Masters; and he’s a bold Man that offers at it.
Source: L'Estrange 141.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
L'Estrange: A Man and Two Wives
It was now Cuckow Time, and a certain middle-ag’d Man, that was half grey, half brown, took a fancy to marry two Wives, of an Age one under another, and happy was the Woman who could please him best. They took mighty Care of him to all manner of Purposes, and still as they were combing the good Man’s Head, they’d be picking out here and there a Hair to make it all of a Colour. The matronly Wife, she pluck’d out all the brown Hairs, and the younger the white: So that they left the Man in the Conclusion no better than a bald Buzzard betwixt them.
‘Tis a much harder Thing to please two Wives, than two Masters; and he’s a bold Man that offers at it.
Source: L'Estrange 141.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Tenniel-Wolf images.
‘Tis a much harder Thing to please two Wives, than two Masters; and he’s a bold Man that offers at it.
Source: L'Estrange 141.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Tenniel-Wolf images.
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