and by-and-by with all submission
compliment, entreat her fair, and bring her in again, he loves her dearly,
she is his sweet, most kind and loving wife, he will not change, nor leave
her for a kingdom; so he continues off and on, as the toy takes him, the
object moves him, but most part brawling, fretting, unquiet he is, accusing
and suspecting not strangers only, but brothers and sisters, father and
mother, nearest and dearest friends. He thinks with those Italians,

"Chi non tocca parentado,
Tocca mai e rado."

And through fear conceives unto himself things almost incredible and
impossible to be effected. As a heron when she fishes, still prying on all
sides; or as a cat doth a mouse, his eye is never off hers; he gloats on
him, on her, accurately observing on whom she looks, who looks at her, what
she saith, doth, at dinner, at supper, sitting, walking, at home, abroad,
he is the same, still inquiring, maundering, gazing, listening, affrighted
with every small object; why did she smile, why did she pity him, commend
him? why did she drink twice to such a man? why did she offer to kiss, to
dance? &c., a whore, a whore, an arrant whore. All this he confesseth in
the poet,

[6128] "Omnia me terrent, timidus sum, ignosce timori.
Et miser in tunica suspicor esse virum.
Me laedit si multa tibi dabit oscula mater,
Me soror, et cum qua dormit amica simul."

"Each thing affrights me, I do fear,
Ah pardon me my fear,
I doubt a man is hid within
The clothes that thou dost wear."

Is it not a man in woman's apparel? is not somebody in that great chest, or
behind the door, or hangings, or in some of those barrels? may not a man
steal in at the window with a ladder of ropes, or come down the chimney,
have a false key, or get in when he is asleep? If a mouse do but stir, or
the wind blow, a casement clatter, that's the villain, there he is: by his
goodwill no man shall see her, salute her, speak with her, she shall not go
forth of his sight, so much as to do her needs. [6129]_Non ita bovem
argus_, &c. Argus did not so keep his cow, that watchful dragon the golden
fleece, or Cerberus the coming in of hell, as he keeps his wife. If a dear
friend or near kinsman come as guest to his house, to visit him, he will
never let him be out of his own sight and company, lest, peradventure, &c.
If the necessity of his business be such that he must go from home, he dot