There are more Ways to come to a Right Understanding of Things, then by
Question and Answer. There are Certain Contentious Humors that are never
to be Pleas’d, and he that Troubles his Head because he cannot Please
them, is worse then a Mad-man. Nay, it falls out many times, that the
very Desire and Endeavor to do it, makes it more Impossible, Especially
where People are Imperious and Insulting, as well as Peevish. Now in
the Case of this Fable, it may be a Question whether the _Wife_ or the
_Woman_ was the more Freakish of the Two: For she was still the same
Uneasie Fop where-ever she was; but the Poor Man however had enough on’t,
in Both Capacities; That is to say, as a Common Incumbrance, and as a
Particular Clog.
The Moral is a Piece of Good Councel to All Men that Labour under that
Unhappy Circumstance. First, in Prudence, to Try what Help for’t; and
then in Case of the Last Necessity, to come to some Peremptory Resolution
to Deliver Themselves.