Scarce three of thirty ships are lost or wreck'd;
But scarcely one poor husband 'scapes at all.
And in his Woman Burnt he says—
Oh, may the man be totally undone
Who was the first to venture on a wife;
And then the next who follow'd his example;
And then the third, and fourth, and all who follow'd.
And Carcinus the tragedian, in his Semele (which begins, "O nights"), says—
O Jupiter, why need one waste one's words
In speaking ill of women? for what worse