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Employments which You have pass'd through, would not have been able to have raised You this

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of fetting to Show those great Services which You have done the Publick,

has not likewife a little contributed to that Uni

versal Acknowledgment which is paid You by Your Country.

THE Confideration of

this Part of Your Cha

racter, is that which hin

ders me from enlarging on

those Extraordinary Ta

lents,

lents, which have given You so great a Figure in the British Senate, as well as on that Elegance and Politeness which appear in Your more retired Conversation. Ishould be unpardonable, if, after what I have said, I should longer detain You with an Address of this Nature:

I cannot, however, conclude it without owning

thofe

those great Obligations which You have laid

upon,

SIR,

Your most Obedient,

Humble Servant,

The Spectator.

THE

SPECTATOR.

VOL. III.

No 170. Friday, September 14. 1711.

In amore hac omnia infunt vitia: injuria,
Suspiciones, inimicitia, inducia,
Bellum, pax rurfum

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Ter. Eun.

PON looking over the Letters of my fe-
male Correspondents, I find several from
Women complaining of jealous Husbands,
and at the same Time protesting their own
Innocence; and defiring my Advice on
this Occafion. I shall therefore take this

Subject into my Confideration; and the more willingly,
because I find that the Marquiss of Hallifax, who in his
Advice to a Daughter, has instructed a Wife how to be.
have her felf towards a false, an intemperate, a cholerick,
a fullen, a covetous or a filly Husband, has not spoken one
Word of a jealous Husband.

JEALOUSY is that Pain which a Man feels from
the Apprehenfion that he is not equally beloved by the Per-

fon whom he entirely loves. Now, because our inward
VOL. III.

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