"Dum Loquor icta taces."
"Surdu canis."
This wife a wondrous racket meanes to keepe,
While th'Husband seemes to sleepe but do'es not sleepe:
But she might full as well her Lecture smother,
For ent'ring one Eare, it goes out at t'other.
The accompanying quaint illustration shows the antiquity of "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures."[114]
[114] At p. 107 the very phrase is mentioned, "These need not feare to have their shoulders besprinkled with Zantippee's livery; or to have their breakfast chang'd into a Morning Curtaine Lecture."
[5.]A friend of Durus comming on a day