A _Jealous Husband_.
A _Jealous Husband_ Committed his Wife in Confidence to the Care and
Custody of a Particular Friend; with the Promise of a Considerable Reward
if he could but keep her Honest. After some Few Days, the Friend grew
weary of his Charge, and Desir’d her Husband to take his Wife Home again,
and Release him of his Bargain; for says he, I find it utterly impossible
to Hinder a Woman from any thing she has a Mind to. If it were to turn a
Bag of Fleas Loose into a Meadow every Morning a Grazing, and Fetch them
Home again at Night, I durst be answerable with my Life for the Doing of
it, to a single Flea, but T’other is a Commission I dare go no further in.
The MORAL.
_’Tis enough to make a Woman a Whore, but so much as to Phansy her One,
and then ’tis to no Boot to be Jealous neither; for if the Humour takes
her to be Jadish, ’tis not All the Locks, Bolts and Spies in Nature that
can keep her Honest._