FAB. CCCXLVIII.

A _Woman_ that brought _Fire_ into the _House_.

The Question was put to an Honest Man Newly Marry’d, What might be the

Meaning of his New Brides bringing a _Torch_ out of her _Father_’s House

into her _Husbands_. Why This says he; I have Eas’d my Father-in-Law of a

Fire-brand, to set my Own House in a Flame.

The MORAL.

_A Contentious Woman puts all into a Flame where-ever she comes._

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