Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Ah Wife! says the Husband, If People that Rise Early and come Home Late, and are all Day out of your Sight, cannot be Quiet for ye, what a Case is your Poor Husband in, that must Spend his Whole Life in your Company. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Moral is a Piece of Good Councel to All Men that Labour under that Unhappy Circumstance. First, in Prudence, to Try what Help for't and then in Case of the Last Necessity, to come to some Peremptory Resolution to Deliver Themselves. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ THERE are more Ways to come to a Right Understanding of Things, then by Question and Answer. There are Certain Contentious Humors that are never to be Pleas'd, and he that Troubles his Head because he cannot Please them, is Worse then a Mad-man. Nay it falls out many times that the very Desire and Endeavour to do it, makes it more Impossible, Especially where People are Imperious and Insulting, as well as Peevish. Now in the Case of this Fable, it may be a Question whether the Wife, or the Woman, was the more Freakish of the Two: For she was still the same Uneasie Fop wherever she was ”
