The Distress'd Wife Author:John Gay Bart. I find you have the Use of your Reason when your Wife is not by; consider yourself as a Man, and consider her as a Woman, and you may have it then too.--You were born to Freedom, and would you seek to make yourself a Slave? You were born to Fortune, and would you stoop to make yourself a Beggar? For of all Beggars, I look upon a Minister's... more » Follower to be the meanest.« less