[ 1095] Husbands not to be Uxorious.
HIerom reporteth out of Senec••,* 1.1 of one that was so uxorious that when he went broad he would gird himselfe with his Wives hose-garter, and could not ••ndure her out of his sight; and must by all means drink of that side of the cup, that she drank of, as the Poet said of Paris, Et quâ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 biberas, hac ego parte bibi; Where thou laist thy lips, there will I drink also: but the good old Father con∣cludes thus; Sapiens ••ir judicio debet amare non affectu, A wise man must not love by fancy and affection,* 1.2 but by judgement and discretion. Thus (as the Proverb is) A Man may love his house well, but not ride on the ridge of it, he may delight in the beauty, and accept of the person of his Wife, and say of her as the friend of the Spouse in the Canticles, O thou fairest among women; but he may not idolize her, he must not be so uxorious as Sampson was, that was so besotted with foolish fond∣nesse to his wife, that he opened unto her the secrets of his heart to his own con∣fusion.