66                                    OF ENVY,

'* A young Mian not yet, an elder man not at all." It
is often seen that bad husbands have very good
wives ; whether it be that it raiseth the price of
their husbands* kindness when it comes, or that the
wives take a pride in their patience. But this never
fails, if the bad husbands were of their own
choosing against their friends^ consent, for then they
will be sure to make good their own folly.
 

IX,

OF ENVY.

There be none of the affections which have been
noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and envy.
They both have vehement wishes. They frame
themselves readily into imaginations and sugges¬
tions, axid they come easily into the eye, especially
upon the presence o:' the objects which are the
points that conduce to fascination, if any such thing
there be. We see, likewise, the Scripture calleth
envy an evil  eye, and  the astrologers call  the evil