* difficult to find out fo proper a Patron for it as Your Self, there being none whofe Merit is more univerfally acknowledged by all Parties, and who has who has made himself more Friends and fewer Enemies. Your great Abilities, and unquestioned Integrity, in thofe high Employments which You have passed through, would not have been able to have raised You this general Approbation, had they not been accompanied with that Moderation in an high Fortune, and that Affability of Manners, which are fo confpicuous through all Parts of your Life. Your Averfion to any Oftentatious Arts of fetting to Show those great great Services which You have done the Publick, has not likewife a little contributed to that Univerfal Acknowledgment which is paid You by your Country. THE Confideration of "this Part of Your Character, is that which hinders me from enlarging on thofe Extraordinary Talents, 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 Converfation. I fhould be unpardonable, if, after what I have faid, I should longer detain You with an Addrefs of this Nature: I cannot, however, conclude it NOTATO JA without '3 without owning those great Obligations which You have laid upon, SIR, Tour most Obedient, Humble Servant, The SPECTATOR. THE SPECTATOR. VOL. III. N° 170. Friday, September 14. 1711. In amore bec omnia infunt vitia: injuria, PON looking over the Letters of my fe male Correfpondents, I find feveral from Women complaining of jealous Husbands, and at the fame time protesting their own Innocence; and defiring my Advice on this Occafion. I fhall therefore take this Subject into my Confideration; and the more willingly, because I find that the Marquifs of Hallifax, who, in his Advice to a Daughter, has inftructed a Wife how to behave herfelf towards a falfe, 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 Perfon whom he intirely loves. Now because our inward Paffions and Inclinations can never make themselves A 4 vifible, vifible, it is impoffible for a jealous Man to be throughly cured of his Sufpicions. His Thoughts hang at beft in a State of Doubtfulness and Uncertainty; and are never capable of receiving any Satisfaction on the advantageous Side; fo that his Inquiries are moft fuccefsful when they difcover nothing: His Pleasure arifes from his Difappointments, and his Life is spent in Pursuit of a Secret that deftroys his Happiness if he chance to find it. AN ardent Love is always a ftrong Ingredient in this Paffion; for the fame Affection which ftirs Man's Defires, and gives the Party beloved fo beautiful a the jealous up Figure in his Imagination, makes him believe the kindles' the fame Paffion in others, and appears as amiable to all Beholders. And as Jealoufy thus arifes from an extraordinary Love, it is of fo delicate a Nature, that it scorns to take up with any thing less than an equal Return of Love. Not the warmest Expreffions of Affection, the foftest and most tender Hypocrify, are able to give any Satiffaction, where we are not perfuaded that the Affection is real and the Satisfaction mutual. For the jealous Man wishes himself a kind of Deity to the Perfon he loves: He would be the only Pleasure of her Senfes, the Employment of her Thoughts; and is angry at every thing the admires, or takes Delight in, befides himself. PHÆDRIA's Requeft to his Miftrefs, upon his leaving her for three Days, is inimitably beautiful and natural. Cum milite ifto præfens, abfens ut fies: Ter. Eun. THE jealous Man's Difeafe is of fo malignant a Nature, that it converts all it takes into its own Nourishment. A cool Behaviour sets him on the Rack, and is interpreted as an Inftance of Averfion or Indifference; a fond one raises his Sufpicions, and looks too much like Diffimulation and Artifice. If the Perfon he loves be chearful, her Thoughts must be employed on another; and |