_Jealousy_, betwixt Man and Wife, does but provoke and Enflame the
Appetite, as it sets the Invention at Work upon Ways and Means of giving
One another the Slip: And when it comes to a Tryal of Skill once, ’tis a
Carrying of the Cause to gain the Point, and there’s a kind of Perverse
Reputation in getting the Better on’t. Briefly, ’tis Labour Lost on Both
sides, while the One is never to be restrain’d, nor the Other to be
satisfy’d: For Jealousy Rages as well without Reason as with it. Nay, the
very Will to do a Thing is as Good as the Thing Done; And his Head is as
Sick, that but fancies the Thing Done, as if he saw the very Doing of it
with his own Eyes. The Ways of a Woman that has a mind to play _Fast_
and _Loose_, are as Unsearchable as the very Thoughts of her Heart; and
therefore the Friend here was in the Right to Discharge Himself of his
Trust, and throw up his Commission.