""George", says Mr. Baguet. "You Know me. It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. Wait till the greens is off her mind. Thens we'll consult. Whatever the old girl says, do - do it!"

"The wife of thy bosom."

"The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak."

"Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own."

"What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine?"

"Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon."

"A good wyf, that is clene of werk and thoght, Sholde nat been kept in noon await, certayn; And trewely, the labour is in vayn To kepe a shrewe, for it wol nat be. This holde I for a verray nycetee, To spille labour, for to kepe wyves; Thus writen olde clerkes in hir lyves."

"This flour of wyfly pacience."

"Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!"

"She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine."

"Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart."

"Use great prudence and circumspection, in choosing thy wife, for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once."

"In thy face have I seen the Eternal."

"So bent on self-sanctifying,— That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well."

", n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife."

", n. A wife, or bitter half."

"Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress"

", n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Without thee, I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone."

"My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met!And has that thought been shared by thee? Ah, no! that smiling cheek Proves more unchanging love for me Than labour'd words could speak."

"And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go."

"Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jaÿ o' my soul."

"Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses."

"The impurity of the eyes is to gaze upon the beauty of another man's wife, and his wealth."

"She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling."

"The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping."

"She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shews she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most when she obeys."

"All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven."

"But what so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair. With matchless impudence they style a wife The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom-serpent, a domestic evil, A night-invasion and a mid-day-devil. Let not the wife these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard."

"Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi."

"Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel."

"He who loves his wife loves himself."

"The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife."

"Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband."

"It is related that on one occasion the Prophet said': "Beat not your wives." Then Umar came to the Prophet and said, "Our wives have got. the upper hand of the their husbands from hearing this." Then the Prophet permitted beating of wives. Then an immense number of women collected round the Prophet's family, and complained of their husbands beating them. And the Prophet said," Verily a great number of women are assembled in my home complaining of their husbands, and those men who beat their wives do not behave well. He is not of my way who teach a woman to go astray and who entices a slave from his master."

"A Muslim cannot obtain anything better than an amiable and beautiful wife, such a wife who, when ordered by her husband to do a thing, will obey, and if her husband looks at her will be happy; and if her husband swears by her, she will make him a swearer of truth; and if ha be absent from her, she will honour him with her own person and property."

"A Muslim must not hate his wife, for if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, thou let him he pleased with another that is good."

"Not one of you must whip his wife like whipping a slave."

"Admonish your wives with kindness, because woman were created from a crooked bone of the side; therefore, if you wish to straighten it, you will break it, and if you let it alone, it will always be crooked."

"The Prophet used to divide his time equally amongst his wives, and he would say, 'O God, I divide impartially that which thou hast put in my power.'"

"When a man calls his wife, she must come, although she be at an oven."

"When a man has two wives and does not treat them equally, he will come on the Day of Resurrection with half his body fallen off."

"That is the moat perfect Muslim whose disposition is the best, and the best of you is he who behaves best to his wives."

"Regarding the treatment. of wives, the following verse in the Qur'an (Surah iv. 38) allows the husband absolute power to correct them: "Chide those whose refractoriness you have cause to fear. Remove them into sleeping chambers apart, and beat them. But if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them.""

"Here were we fallen in a greate question of ye lawe whyther ye grey mare may be the better horse or not."

"For what thou art is mine: Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."

"For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote."