ut." It is an
ordinary thing for women in such cases to scratch the faces, slit the noses
of such as they suspect; as Henry the Second's importune Juno did by
Rosamond at Woodstock; for she complains in a [6132]modern poet, she scarce
spake,

"But flies with eager fury to my face,
Offering me most unwomanly disgrace.
Look how a tigress, &c.
So fell she on me in outrageous wise,
As could disdain and jealousy devise."

Or if it be so they dare not or cannot execute any such tyrannical
injustice, they will miscall, rail and revile, bear them deadly hate and
malice, as [6133]Tacitus observes, "The hatred of a jealous woman is
inseparable against such as she suspects."

[6134] "Nulla vis flammae tumidique venti
Tanta, nec teli metuanda torti.
Quanta cum conjux viduata taedis
Ardet et odit."

"Winds, weapons, flames make not such hurly burly,
As raving women turn all topsy-turvy."

So did Agrippina by Lollia, and Calphurnia in the days of Claudius. But
women are sufficiently curbed in such cases, the rage of men is more
eminent, and frequently put in practice. See but with what rigour those
jealous husbands tyrannise over their poor wives. In Greece, Spain, Italy,
Turkey, Africa, Asia, and generally over all those hot countries, [6135]
_Mulieres vestrae terra vestra, arate sicut vultis_. Mahomet in his Alcoran
gives this power to men, your wives are as your land, till them, use them,
entreat them fair or foul, as you will yourselves. [6136]_Mecastor lege
dura vivunt mulieres_, they lock them still in their houses, which are so
many prisons to them. will suffer nobody to come at them, or their wives to
be seen abroad,--_nec campos liceat lustrare patentes_. They must not so
much as look out. And if they be great persons, they have eunuchs to keep
them, as the Grand Signior among the Turks, the Sophies of Persia, those
Tartarian Mogors, and Kings of China. _Infantes masculos castrant innumeros
ut regi serviant_, saith [6137]Riccius, "they geld innumerable infants" to
this purpose; the King of [6138]China "maintains 10,000 eunuchs in his
family to keep his wives." The Xeriffes of Barbary keep their courtesans in
such a strict manner, that if any man come but in sight of them he dies for
it; and if they chance to see a man, and do not instantly cry out, though
from their windows, they must be put to death. The Turks have I know