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of you; for she that will not be jealous loves you not; and she that loves you not will not be constant to you.
Answer all the expeetations of a woman you would keep constant; for one single neglect hazards the loss of her affeetions.
Keep a watchful eye over the woman whom you love; seem not to be over credulous of her virtue; if you do, she will make trials of your faith.
She who kisses her husband in public, hath generally her eye on him she would kiss in private; and she that will kiss both in public and private values not where she kisses.
Be constant to your wife that she may be constant to you; for gratitude may constrain a woman to preserve those bonds which revenge may make her violate.
Chuse for your wife a prudent woman, for prudence preserves virtue, virtue love, love constancy.
Inconstancy in a wife makes wedlock a bramble, which bears abundance of thorns.
Inconstancy in a husband makes inconstancy in a wife; and an inconstant wife makes a husband a constant cuckold.
Trust no man with your wife abroad, nor court your friend to bear her company at home
