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Some women are politicly penitent: after a revenge completed, they will palliate the injury, with succeeding pity; but think the sorrow of such a person as great as hers, who weeping follows a dead husband to the grave, whom she has wished out of the world a thousand times while he was living.
Changes in inconstant tempers are never to be minded: she who does you a willing injury, and seems sorry for it, it is your prudence to believe that she only grieves the misehief she has done you is no greater. Trust an enemy who hath once hurt you, upon a reeonciliation, no farther than you would the fawning of a mastiff dog which had attemped to worry you.
Most women are polite in their love, but much more subtle in their revenge; therefore be eareful how you affront them, or deceive them, to deserve it; besides it is ignoble to offend the peevish, or hurt the weak.
Make not her that loves you, by ingratitude, your enemy; for revenge (like a crab-tree) produees a sweet blossom, but a sour fruit.
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CHAP. V.
OF THE PRIDE OF WOMEN
Stateliness in a woman may beeome her as she walks, but pride in eonversation is hateful and ridiculous, and cxposes the person affected with
