taste  before  (taking)  any  food?  and  if  he  knows
it  to  be  bread,  does  he  not  believe  it  to  be  /li,i/
(bread)  which  it  issauito  be?  And  will  every
(husband),  ignorant  of  the  reason  of  thtsc  \
things,  simply  endure  them,  without  murmuring.
without  suspicion  whether  it  be  brea<i  or  |x>ison  ?
Some,  (it  is  true,)  do  endure  (them);  but  ii  is
that  they  may  trample  on,  that  they  may  m.^kc
sport  of  such  women  ;  whose  secrets  they  kL-!-|i
in  reserve  against  the  danger  which  they  bel!c\L-
in,  in  case  they  ever  chance  to  be  hurt :  they  dii
endure  (wives),  whose  dowries,  by  casting  in
their  teeth  their  (Christian)  name,  they  m;ikc
the  wages  of  silence;  while  they  threaten  them,
forsooth,  with  a  suit  before  some  spy '  as  arbi-
trator !  which  most  women,  not  foreseeing,  have
been  wont  to  discover  either  by  the  extonion
of  their  property,  or  else  by  the  loss  of  thtir
faith.
