You have given us in your Spectator oi Saturday last,

a very excellent Discourse tq;>on the Force oi Custom,

and its wonder&slBfficacy in making every thing pleasant

to us. I cannot deny but that I received atove Two

penny^'worth of Instruction from your Paper, and in iht

General was very well pleased wim it| bc^ I am without

a Complement, smcerely troubled that I cannot exactly be

oi your Opinion, That it makes every thing pleasing to

us. In short I ba^^ the Honour to be yokM to a young

Lady, who is, in plain English, for her Standing, a very

eminent Scold ^e began to break her Mind very fredy

both to me and to her Servants about two Months alter our

Nuptials^ and tho' I have been accustomed to this Humour

of hers this three Years, yet, I do not know what's the

Matter with me, but I am no more delighted with it than

I was at the very first I have advised with her Relations

about her, and they all tell me that her Mother and her

Grandmother before her were both taken much after the

same Manner \ so that since it runs in the Blood, I have

but small Hopes oi her Recovery. I should be glad to

have a little of your Advice in tuis Matteri I would not

willingly trouble you to contrive howitmay be a Pleasure

to me I if you will but put me in a Way ttiat I may bear

it with Indifference, I shall rest satisfied.
