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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431373" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Jealous Husband</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear,<br>With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear,<br>Deprived his wife of every social joy,<br>(Friends oft the jealous character annoy,)<br>And made a fine collection in a book,<br>Of tricks with which the sex their wishes hook.<br>Strange fool! as if their wiles, to speak the truth,<br>Were not a hydra, both in age and youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HIS wife howe'er engaged his constant cares;<br>He counted e'en the number of her hairs;<br>And kept a hag who followed every hour,<br>Where'er she went, each motion to devour;<br>Duenna like, true semblance of a shade,<br>That never quits, yet moves as if afraid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THIS arch collection, like a prayer-book bound;<br>Was in the blockhead's pocket always found,<br>The form religious of the work, he thought,<br>Would prove a charm 'gainst vice whenever sought!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ONE holy day, it happened that our dame,<br>As from the neighb'ring church she homeward came;<br>And passed a house, some wight, concealed from view;<br>A basket full of filth upon her threw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WITH anxious care apologies were made;<br>The lady, frightened by the frolick played,<br>Quite unsuspicious to the mansion went;<br>Her aged friend for other clothes she sent,<br>Who hurried home, and ent'ring out of breath;<br>Informed old hunks--what pained him more than death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ZOUNDS! cried the latter, vainly I may look<br>To find a case like this within my book;<br>A dupe I'm made, and nothing can be worse:--<br>Hell seize the work--'tis thoroughly a curse!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">NOT wrong he proved, for, truly to confess;<br>This throwing dirt upon the lady's dress<br>Was done to get the hag, with Argus' eyes<br>Removed a certain distance from the prize.<br>The gay gallant, who watched the lucky hour,<br>Felt doubly blessed to have her in his power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HOW vain our schemes to guard the wily sex!<br>Oft plots we find, that ev'ry sense perplex.<br>Go, jealous husbands, books of cases burn;<br>Caresses lavish, and you'll find return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=La+Fontaine">La Fontaine</a><div class=q>
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With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear,
Deprived his wife of every social joy,
(Friends oft the jealous character annoy,)
And made a fine collection in a book,
Of tricks with which the sex their..."></div>
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