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Margery Pinchwife is in love with a man from town named Mr. Horner, even though she is married to Mr. Pinchwife. Mr. Pinchwife is paranoid and jealous and makes Margery sit down and write a letter, which he dictates, to Mr. Horner. He makes her tell Horner that she doesn’t want to see him again and that she hates his advances, but Margery hates writing these words to a man she loves. When Pinchwife steps out of the room, Margery writes a completely new letter to Mr. Horner, sharing her love and
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Start: Pinchwife: Come, tell me, I say.
Mrs. Pinchwife: Lord! han't I told it a hundred times over?
Pinchwife: [Aside.] I would try, if in the repetition of the ungrateful tale, I could find her altering it in the least circumstance; for if her story be false, she is so too.—[Aloud.] Come, how was't, baggage?
Mrs. Pinchwife: Lord, what pleasure you take to
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