and if fad, the is certainly thinking on himself. In fhort, there is no Word or Gefture fo infignificant, but it gives him new Hints, feeds his Sufpicions, and furnishes him with fresh Matters of Difcovery: So that if we confider the Effects of this Paffion, one would rather think it proceeded from an inveterate Hatred than an exceffive Love; for certainly none can meet with more Difquietude and Uneafinefs than a fufpected Wife, if we except the jealous Husband. BUT the great Unhappiness of this Paffion is, that it naturally tends to alienate the Affection which it is fo folicitous to engrofs; and that for these two Reasons, because it lays too great a Conftraint on the Words and Actions of the fufpected Perfon, and at the fame time fhews you have no honourable Opinion of her; both of which are strong Motives to Averfion. NOR is this the worst Effect of Jealoufy; for it often draws after it a more fatal Train of Confequences, and makes the Perfon you fufpect, guilty of the very Crimes you are fo much afraid of. It is very natural for fuch who are treated ill and upbraided falfly, to find out an intimate Friend that will hear their Complaints, condole their Sufferings, and endeavour to footh and affuage their fecret Refentments. Befides, Jealoufy puts a Woman often in mind of an ill Thing that she would not otherwise perhaps have thought of, and fills her Imagination with fuch an unlucky Idea, as in time grows familiar, excites Defire, and lofes all the Shame and Horror which might at firft attend it. Nor is it a Wonder if the who fuffers wrongfully in a Man's Opinion of her, and has therefore nothing to forfeit in his Efteem, refolves to give him reafon for his Sufpicions, and to enjoy the Pleasure of the Crime, fince the muft undergo the Ignominy. Such probably were the Confiderations that directed the wife Man in his Advice to Husbands; Be not jealous over the Wife of thy Bofam, and teach her not an evil Leffon against thy felf. Ecclus. AND here among the other Torments which this Paffion produces, we may ufually obferve that none are greater Mourners than jealous Men, when the Perfon who provoked their Jealoufy is taken from them. Then it is that their Love breaks out furiously, and throws A 5 off of all the Mixtures of Sufpicion which choked and mothered it before. The beautiful Parts of the Cha racter rife uppermoft in the Jealous Husband's Memory, and upbraid him with the ill Ufage of fo divine a Creature as was once in his Poffeffion; whilft all the little Imperfections that were before fo uneafy to him, wear off from his Remembrance, and fhew themselves no more. WE may fee by what has been faid, that Jealousy takes the deepest Root in Men of amorous Difpofitions and of these we may find three Kinds who are most over-run with it. THE Firft are those who are confcious to themselves of an Infirmity, whether it be Weaknefs, Old Age, Deformity, Ignorance, or the like. Thefe Man are fo well acquainted with the unamiable Part of themselves, that they have not the Confidence to think they are really beloved; and are fo distrustful of their own Merits, that all Fondness towards them puts them out of Countenance, and looks like a Jeft upon their Perfons. They grow fufpicious on their firft looking in a Glafs, and are ftung with Jealoufy at the fight of a Wrinkle. A handfom Fellow immediately alarms them, and every thing that looks young or gay turns their Thoughts upon their Wives. A Second Sort of Men, who are moft liable to this Paffion, are thofe of cunning, wary, and distrustful Tempers. It is a Fault very justly found in Hiftories compofed by Politicians, that they leave nothing to Chance or Humour, but are ftill for deriving every Action from fome Plot and Contrivance, for drawing up a perpetual Scheme of Caufes and Events, and preferving a conitant Correfpondence between the Camp and the Council-Table. And thus it happens in the Affairs of Love with Men of 100 refined a Thought. They put a Conftruction on a Look, and find out a Defign in a Smile; they give new Senfes and Significations to Words and Actions; and are ever tormenting themselves with Fancies of their own yaifing: They generally act in a Difguife themselves, and therefore mistake all outward Shows and Appearances for Hypocrify in others; fo that I believe no Men fee less of the Truth and Reality of Things, than thefe great Re finers upon Incidents, who are fo wonderfully fubtle and· over-wife in their Conceptions. NOW what these Men fanfy they know of Women by Reflexion, your lewd and vicious Men believe they have learned by Experience. They have feen the poor Husband fo mifled by Tricks and Artifices, and in the midft of his Inquiries fo loft and bewilder'd in a crooked Intrigue, that they ftill fufpect an Under-Plot in every female Action; and efpecially where they fee any Refemblance in the Behaviour of two Perfons, are apt to fanfy it proceeds from the fame Defign in both. Thefe Men therefore bear hard upon the fufpected Party, purfue her clofe through all her Turnings and Windings, and are too well acquainted with the Chace, to be flung off by any falfe Steps or Doubles: Befides, their Acquaintance and Converfation has lain wholly among the vicious Part of Womankind, and therefore it is no Wonder they cenfure all alike, and look upon the whole Sex as a Species of Impoftors. But if, notwithstanding their private Experience, they can get over thefe Prejudices, and entertain a favourable Opinion of fome Women; yet their own loofe Defires will ftir up new Sufpicions from another Side, and make them believe all Men fubject to the fame Inclinations with themselves. WHETHER thefe or other Motives are most predominant, we learn from the modern Hiftories of Âmerica, as well as from our own Experience in this Part of the World, that Jealoufy is no Northern Paffion, but rages molt in thofe Nations that lie nearest the Influence of the Sun. It is a Misfortune for a Woman to be born betwen the Tropicks; for there lie the hottest Regions of Jealoufy, which as you come Northward cools all along with the Climate, till you fearce meet with any thing like it in the Polar Circle. Our own Nation is very tenperately fituated in this refpect; and if we meet with fome few difordered with the Violence of this Paffion, they are not the proper Growth of our Country, but re many Degrees nearer the Sun in their Conftitutions than in their Climate. AFTER this frightful Account of Jealoufy, and the Perfons who are molt fubject to it, it will be but fair to fhew by what means the Paffion may be beft allay'd, and thofe thofe who are poffeffed with it fet at Eafe. Other Faults indeed are not under the Wife's Jurifdiction, and fhould, if poffible, escape her Obfervation; but Jealoufy calls. upon her particularly for its Cure, and deferves all her Art and Application in the Attempt: Befides, fhe has this for her Encouragement, that her Endeavours will be always pleafing, and that she will still find the Affection of her Husband rifing towards her in Proportion as his Doubts and Sufpicions vanish; for, as we have feen all along, there is fo great a Mixture of Love in Jealoufy as is well worth the feparating. But this fhall be the Sub-1 ject of another Paper. L N° 171. Saturday, September 15. "Credula res amor eft H Ovid. Met. AVING in my Yesterday's Paper discovered the Nature of Jealoufy, and pointed out the Perfons who are most fubject to it, I must here apply my felf to my fair Correfpondents, who defire to live well with a jealous Husband, and to ease his Mind of its un-: juft Sufpicions. 1 THE first Rule I fhall propose to be observed is, that you never feem to dislike in another what the Jealous Man is himself guilty of, or to admire any thing in which he himself does not excel. A jealous Man is very quick in his Applications, he knows how to find a double Edge in an Invective, and to draw a Satire on himself out of a Panegyrick on another. He does not trouble himself to confider the Person, but to direct the Character; and is fecretly pleafed or confounded as he finds more or less of himfelf in it. The Commendation of any thing in another, ftirs up his Jealoufy, as it fhews you have a Value for others, befides himself; but the Commendation of that which he himself wants, inflames him more, as it fhews that in fome Refpects you prefer others before him. Jealoufy Jealoufy is admirably described in this View by Horace in his Ode to Lydia. Quum tu, Lydia, Telephi Cervicem rofeam, cerea Telephi Laudas brachia, væ meum Fervens difficili bile tumet jecur : Certa fede manet; humor & in genas Quam lentis penitus macerer ignibus. When Telephus his youthful Charms, And melt : diflike THE Jealous Man is not indeed angry if you another but if you find thofe Faults which are to be found in his own Character, you difcover not only your Diflike of another, but of himself. In fhort, he is fo defirous of engroffing all your Love, that he is grieved at the want of any Charm, which he believes has Power to raife it; and if he finds by your Cenfures on others, that he is not fo agreeable in your Opinion as he might be, he naturally concludes you could love him better if he had other Qualifications, and that by Confequence your Affection does not rife fo high as he thinks it ought. If therefore his Temper be grave or fullen, you must not be too much pleafed with a Jeft, or tranfported with any thing that is gay and diverting. If his Beauty be none of the beft, you must be a profeffed Admirer of Prudence, or |