Strutt."

She left him three daughters, whose names were Polemia, Discordia,
and Usuria.**

* Endeavours and hopes of some people to hinder the dissolution of
that Parliament.
** War, faction, and usury.



CHAPTER X. Of John Bull's second Wife, and the good Advice that she
gave him.*

John quickly got the better of his grief, and, seeing that neither
his constitution nor the affairs of his family, could permit him to
live in an unmarried state, he resolved to get him another wife; a
cousin of his last wife's was proposed, but John would have no more
of the breed. In short, he wedded a sober country gentlewoman, of a
good family and a plentiful fortune, the reverse of the other in her
temper; not but that she loved money, for she was saving, and
applied her fortune to pay John's clamorous debts, that the unfrugal
method of his last wife, and this ruinous lawsuit, had brought him
into. One day, as she had got her husband in a good humour, she
talked to him after the following manner:--"My dear, since I have
been your wife, I have observed great abuses and disorders in your
family: your servants are mutinous and quarrelsome, and cheat you
most abominably; your cookmaid is in a combination with your
butcher, poulterer, and fishmonger; your butler purloins your
liquor, and the brewer sells you hogwash; your baker cheats both in