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for she that you keep will keep another if she can; their being the same ambition in her to be the mistress of another, as there is in you to be master of her; and he that thinks a woman constant because he keeps her, proves a knave to himself, and a fool to his madam.
Put not faith in a woman that is wife to another; for she who is not constant to her husband will never be so to you.
A woman who hath a husband and admits of a gallant, let him look upon her as Monsieur Ragout’s mistress, who was constant to the whole troop.
A married woman, if lewd, is subtle by experience; for she who hath her husband to deceive every day, can deceive a gallant at leisure.
A durable love is the supporter of constancy; but that love can never be lasting that stands on a false bottom.
Be constant to no woman but a wife; if you be, you deceive yourself; expect no constancy in a whore, for she will deceive you
Credit no woman’s words who hath lost her virtue, but believe the contrary, for she talks counter.
If you have contracted any friendship with a woman, let all she can do for you be no more than you deserve; but if she prove constant, let it be more than you cxpect.
