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 the Cae at prefent; for he continued longer in a State of Affability, after this Fit of Jealouy was ended, than her Huband had ever known before: And, had it not been for ome little Exercies, which all the Followers of Xantippe are obliged to perform daily, Mr. Partridge would have enjoyed a perfect Serenity of everal Months.

Perfect Calms at Sea are always upected by the experienced Mariner to be the Forerunners of a Storm: And I know ome Perons, who, without being generally the Devotees of Supertition, are apt to apprehend, that great and unuual Peace or Tranquility, will be attended with its oppoite: For which Reaon the Antients ued, on uch Occaions, to acrifice to the Goddes Nemeis; 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 uch Heathen Goddes, or from encouraging any Supertition, o we with Mr. John Fr, or ome other uch Philoopher, would betir himelf a little, in order to find out the real Caue of this udden Tranition, from good to bad Fortune, which hath been