<< 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 >>         I affirm that Nature hath create nothing to a neéedlesse purpose, but not withstanding our abuse, or mischance, changeth hurtfull things into occasions of our help: surfite, and sicknes only, commendeth Medicine: and as you affirme, the blood af a Scorpion, cureth the biting of the Viper.         But take away the cause, which procéedeth from our greefe, and you shall finde medicine as an enemy to health: and the stinge of a Scorpion no better them death: and trust me, he is to be reckoned a foole, and his misfortune to passe unrelieved, that wilfully indammageth his health in hope of remedy. In like sort, let him live unpittied, to oversee the flacknesse of his servants, who will marry a wife, whose tung shall over-rule himselfe. But more particularly to describe the proèerties of an unquiet wife, and more largerly to discourse the displeasures of her unfortunate husband: I will approove her lowing as unprofitable, as his life is unpleasant: you say her quicknesse overseeth the negligence of servants: but I affirme, tha her courtnesse maketh them as swift ti runne away, as they were slowe to serve her, and common use auowes that often shift is neither beneficiall for Maister no servant: for proofe, as the rowlimg Stone gathereth no Mosse, and want of use canckereth Iron, in likewise thrift flyeth the fleeting Servant, and idleness consumeth his ability of service. Now touching the evil reckoning of those which are served: their wandering servants not only charge their common accounts, with double wages, but with secret pilfering, they set their masters in more déepe arrerages, The Grecians that in times past neither used medicine for sicknesse, nor patience in adversitie, but upon every great veration, poisoned themselves with venomous Cienta. In their Histories remember more, that have voluntarily died, trough the violence their Wives tunges, then of any other calamity. Diogenes being demaunded the diversity if an evill, betwéene a scold and a harlot? Answered: They differ as the Viper doth from the crockdill: for the scolde faith he, with outrage destroyeth her Husband, and the other with dissembling love, consumeth him to death. And to concluded the both enemies to life, and quiet living of man. Phrisio being both modestly warned, and thoroughly answered, with a blushful grace replayed: that the gravity of his person, and the sound reason in his wordes, had taken from him al occasion of further Question, unles that women were his Iudges. << 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 >>