"She [Desdemona] saw, as the truly valuable Part of the Sex do, Othello's Visage in his Mind; she was too innocent and resigned to be guarded against the Wiles of envious and designing Men; and thus, while basking in the Sunshine of Love, and sporting in the Splendor of its divine Emanations, she was blind to and unguarded against, that dark Side which clouds and balances all human Lustre; and when acting superior, like a rude Storm, bears down all before it, renders the Soul black as <em>Erebus</em>, and works the Passions into a kind of Chaos; yet, is there nothing out of Nature, Truth, and common Experience, in all this; and is a Point so well understood, nay, and encouraged too among the Spanish Ladies, that, however it may appear to affect the Moral of this fine Play, they insist that this Jealousy, this Jaundice of the Mind, this Hurricane of the Spirits, is one of the richest Joys they taste in the Society of Men; and would rather die by the Poniard, than not have their Husbands jealous of them."
The Fool, No. 44
<u>The Fool: Being a Collection of Essays and Epistles, Moral, Political, Humorous, and Entertaining. Published in the Daily Gazetteer</u>, vol. 1 of 2 (London: Printed and sold by Nutt, Cooke and Kingman, 1748). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CcwPAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;