the Caſe at prefent; for ſhe continued longer in a State of Affability, after this Fit of Jealouſy was ended, than her Huſband had ever known before: And, had it not been for ſome little Exerciſes, which all the Followers of Xantippe are obliged to perform daily, Mr. Partridge would have enjoyed a perfect Serenity of ſeveral Months.
Perfect Calms at Sea are always ſuſpected by the experienced Mariner to be the Forerunners of a Storm: And I know ſome Perſons, who, without being generally the Devotees of Superſtition, are apt to apprehend, that great and unuſual Peace or Tranquility, will be attended with its oppoſite: For which Reaſon the Antients uſed, on ſuch Occaſions, to ſacrifice to the Goddeſs Nemeſis; a Deity who was thought by them to look with an invidious Eye on human Felicity, and to have a peculiar Delight in overturning it.
As we are very far from believing in any ſuch Heathen Goddeſs, or from encouraging any Superſtition, ſo we with Mr. John Fr, or ſome other ſuch Philoſopher, would beſtir himſelf a little, in order to find out the real Cauſe of this ſudden Tranſition, from good to bad Fortune, which hath beenſo
