no_? to what end?

[2367] "Nescire velle quae Magister maximus
Docere non vult, erudita inscitia est."

_Unfortunate marriage_.] Amongst these passions and irksome accidents,
unfortunate marriage may be ranked: a condition of life appointed by God
himself in Paradise, an honourable and happy estate, and as great a
felicity as can befall a man in this world, [2368]if the parties can agree
as they ought, and live as [2369]Seneca lived with his Paulina; but if they
be unequally matched, or at discord, a greater misery cannot be expected,
to have a scold, a slut, a harlot, a fool, a fury or a fiend, there can be
no such plague. Eccles. xxvi. 14, "He that hath her is as if he held a
scorpion," &c. xxvi. 25, "a wicked wife makes a sorry countenance, a heavy
heart, and he had rather dwell with a lion than keep house with such a
wife." Her [2370]properties Jovianus Pontanus hath described at large,
_Ant. dial. Tom. 2_, under the name of Euphorbia. Or if they be not equal
in years, the like mischief happens. Cecilius in _Agellius lib. 2. cap.
23_, complains much of an old wife, _dum ejus morti inhio, egomet mortuus
vivo inter vivos_, whilst I gape after her death, I live a dead man amongst
the living, or if they dislike upon any occasion,

[2371] "Judge who that are unfortunately wed
What 'tis to come into a loathed bed."

The same inconvenience befalls women.

[2372] "At vos o duri miseram lugete parentes,
Si ferro aut laqueo laeva hac me exsolvere sorte
Sustineo:"------

"Hard hearted parents both lament my fate,
If self I kill or hang, to ease my state."

[2373]A young gentlewoman in Basil was married, saith Felix Plater,
_observat. l. 1_, to an ancient man against her will, whom she could not
affect; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief; and
though her husband did all he could possibly to give her content, in a
discontented humour at length she hanged herself. Many other stories he
relates in this kind. Thus men are plagued with women; they again with men,
when they are of divers humours and conditions; he a spendthrift, she
sparing; one honest, the other dishonest, &c. Parents many times disquiet
their children, and they their parents. [2374]"A foolish son is an
heaviness to his mother." _Injusta noverca_: a stepmother often vexeth a
whole family, is matter of repentance, exercise of patience, fuel of
dissension, which made Cato's son expostulate wit