is spiteful or malicious; that is disrespectful or undutiful, and
such-like.
    6. That I must bear with him, even when I find him in the wrong. This is a
little hard, as the Case may be!
I wonder whether poor Miss Sally Godfrey be living or dead!
    7. That I must be as flexible as the Reed in the Fable, lest, by resisting
the Tempest, like the Oak, I be torn up by the Roots. Well! I'll do the best I
can! - There is no great Likelihood, I hope, I should be too perverse; yet,
sure, the Tempest will not lay me quite level with the Ground neither.
    8. That the Education of young People of Condition is generally wrong.
Memorandum, That if any Part of Childrens Education fall to my Lot, I never
indulge or humour them in things that they ought to be restrain'd in.
    9. That I accustom them to bear Disappointments and Controul.
    10. That I suffer them not to be too much indulged in their Infancy.
    11. Nor at School.
    12. Nor spoil them when they come home.
    13. For that Children generally extend their Perverseness from the Nurse to
the Schoolmaster; from the Schoolmaster to the Parents.
    14. And, in their next Step, as a proper Punishment for all, make their own
Selves unhappy.
    15. That undutiful and perverse Children make bad Husbands and Wives: And,
collaterally, bad Masters and Mistresses.
    16. That not being subject to be controuled early, they cannot, when
marry'd, bear one another.
    17. That the Fault lying deep, and in the Minds of each, neither will mend
it.
    18. Whence follow Misunderstandings, Quarrels, Appeals, ineffectual
Reconciliations, Separations, Elopements - or, at best, Indifference; perhaps,
Aversion. - Memorandum, A good Image of unhappy Wedlock, in the Words YAWNING
HUSBAND and VAPOURISH WIFE, when together: - But separate, both quite alive.
    19. Few marry'd Persons behave as he likes! - Let me ponder this with Awe
and Improvement.
    20. Some Gentlemen can compromise with their Wives for Quietness-sake; but
he can't. - Indeed I believe that's true! - I don't desire he should.
    21. That Love before Marriage is absolutely necessary.
    22. That there are fewer Instances of Mens than Womens loving better after
Marriage. - But why so? I wish he had given his Reasons for this! I fansy they
would not