so two or three times with good
success, and at length seeing her neighbour, gave her great thanks for it,
and would needs know the ingredients, [6286]she told her in brief what it
was, "fair water," and no more: for it was not the water, but her silence
which performed the cure. Let every froward woman imitate this example, and
be quiet within doors, and (as [6287]M. Aurelius prescribes) a necessary
caution it is to be observed of all good matrons that love their credits,
to come little abroad, but follow their work at home, look to their
household affairs and private business, _oeconomiae incumbentes_, be sober,
thrifty, wary, circumspect, modest, and compose themselves to live to their
husbands' means, as a good housewife should do,

[6288] "Quae studiis gavisa coli, partita labores
Fallet opus cantu, formae assimulata coronae
Cura puellaris, circum fusosque rotasque
Cum volvet," &c.

Howsoever 'tis good to keep them private, not in prison;

[6289] "Quisquis custodit uxorem vectibus et seris,
Etsi sibi sapiens, stultus est, et nihil sapit."

Read more of this subject, _Horol. princ. lib. 2. per totum._ Arnisaeus,
_polit._ Cyprian, Tertullian, Bossus _de mulier. apparat._ Godefridus _de
Amor. lib. 2. cap. 4._ Levinus Lemnius _cap. 54. de institut._ Christ.
Barbaras _de re uxor. lib. 2. cap. 2._ Franciscus Patritius _de institut.
Reipub. lib. 4. Tit. 4. et 6. de officio mariti et uxoris_, Christ. Fonseca
_Amphitheat. Amor. cap. 45._ Sam. Neander, &c.

These cautions concern him; and if by those or his own discretion otherwise
he cannot moderate himself, his friends must not be wanting by their
wisdom, if it be possible, to give the party grieved satisfaction, to
prevent and remove the occasions, objects, if it may be to secure him. If
it be one alone, or many, to consider whom he suspects or at what times, in
what places he is most incensed, in what companies. [6290]Nevisanus makes a
question whether a young physician ought to be admitted in cases of
sickness, into a new-married man's house, to administer a julep, a syrup,
or some such physic. The Persians of old would not suffer a young physician
to come amongst women. [6291]Apollonides Cous made Artaxerxes cuckold, and
was after buried alive for it. A goaler in Aristaenetus had a fine young
gentleman to his prisoner; [6292]in commiseration of his youth and person
he let him loose, to enjoy the liberty of the prison, but he unkindly