Nor will the influence of this transformation be less in family
tranquillity, than it is in national. Great faults will be
amended, and frailties forgiven, on both sides. A wife who has
been disturb'd with late hours, and choak'd with the hautgout of
a sot, will remember her sufferings, and avoid the temptations;
and will, for the same reason, indulge her mate in his female
capacity in some passions, which she is sensible from experience
are natural to the sex. Such as vanity of fine cloaths, being
admir'd, etc. And how tenderly must she use her mate under the
breeding qualms and labour-pains which she hath felt her self? In
short, all unreasonable demands upon husbands must cease, because
they are already satisfy'd from natural experience that they are
impossible.
That the ladies may govern the affairs of the world, and the
gentlemen those of their houshold, better than either of them
have hitherto done, is the hearty desire of,
Their most sincere well-wisher,
M.S.
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