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28 A PANEGYRICK
Afarriage, which is but the higheft Advance
and Improvement of Friendfhip in the clofeft
Bond of Union. Good God! What frequent
Divorces, or worfe Mifchief, would oft fadly
2s to paſs over light Occaſions of Quarrel
with Laughing, Jefting, Diffembling, and
fuch like Playing the Fool? Nay, how few
Matches would go forward, if the hafty Lover
did but firt know how many little Tricks of
Lu and Wantonnefs (and perhaps more grofs
Failings) his Coy and feemingly Bafhful
Miſtreſs had oft before been guilty of? And
how fewer Marriages, when confummated, would
continue happy, if the Husband were not either
fottifhly infenfible of, or did not purpofely
wink at and pafs over the Lightnefs and For¬
wardnefs of his Good-natur’'d Wife? This
Peace and Quietnefs is owing to my Manage¬
ment, for there would otherwiſe be continual
Jarrs, and Broils, and Mad Doings, if want
of Wit only did not at the fame time make a
contented Cuckold and a fHiil Houfe ; if the
Cuckow Sing at the Back-door, the unthink¬
ing Cornute takes notice of the unlucky Omen
of other Egos being laid in his own Neſt,
but laughs it over, [F1c. X.] kiffes his Dear
Spoufe, and all is well. And indeed it is
much better patiently to be fuch a hen-peck’d
Frigot, than alway to be wrack’d and tortur'd
with the grating Surmifes of Sufpicion and
Jealoufie. In fine, there is no one Society,
no one Relation Men ftand in, would be com¬
fortable,,
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