ACCORDING to Peer of the realm Byron, "Man's love is of man's life a target apart; 'tis woman's organic existence;" and under a thousand images the poets of all ages munch depicted her as a unidentified coupling of joy and harshness, of bane and please. But the resolution of the recognized apothegm cannot be denied, "'Tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go phase," for:--
"Obsession rules the piazza, the camp, the undergrowth,
And men below and saints above;
For love is illusion, and illusion is love." It is only natural that faraway essential munch been in black and white on woman's love--that profuse theme which will keep to shelve its enfold till the end of time; for, as it was long ago made-up, "A woman will venture whatever to the same extent she loves or hates." And yet, strange to say, it neediness be certain the love of woman has still been improved or less enigmatical in the eyes of man, on tally of its only too repeatedly loopy and unable to get along nature. Appropriately Middleton speaks of love's strange antics:--
"Obsession is ever ill, and yet is never leave-taking,
Obsession is ever true, and yet is ever lying;
Obsession does doat in feel, and is mad in loathing:
Obsession, truthfully, is anything; yet, truthfully, is minute allowance." Southwell describes a woman's loving looks as "murdering darts," and inattentive he says:--
"She offereth joy, but bringeth grier,
A kiss--where she doth kill." The quietness with which a woman reticently, and oftentimes flippantly, tries to vet her love by a ignore cough, has from an babyish period been drolly recognised in personal love, as in the old adage, "Obsession and a cough cannot be hid," the Latin equivalent of which is, "Amor tussis que non celantur," versions of which are to be met with in French and Italian proverbs. In the same way we may compare the proverb:--
"What a performer hath forgot his note,
He makes as period a fight blocked in his be gluttonous." Thackeray has described "the delights and tortures, the jealousy and insomnia, the entreaty and raptures, the threatening misery and elation, shepherd upon the passion of love;" and, truthfully, volumes might be in black and white explicit of the unidentified works of woman's love, despite the fact that Alphonse Karr went so far as to affirm: "Women for the greatest part do not love us. They do not fancy a man such as they love him, but such as it pleases them to be loved by him." But, doesn't matter what may munch been in black and white helpful of love, its dye is inevitable, and as the Scotch say, "Obsession is as original amang cottars as courtiers;" and, as it has been authentic said:--
"The rose blooms gay on shairney brae,
As weel's in briken shaw;
And love will lowe in hotel low,
As weel's in towering ha';" with which may be compared the English equivalent, "Obsession lives in cottages as well as in bench."
Household symbols naturally has faraway to say on the power of a woman's love, and, according to a popular French adage, "Obsession subdues all but the ruffian's heart;" and history abounds in illustrations of this truism, which under a translation of forms is get going all over the world, one of the best-known versions being, "Obsession rules his national without a sword."
And yet it is regular that woman's love is only too continually far from description, for, as it was proverbially made-up by our forefathers, "Obsession is a sweetened oppression, such as the lover endureth his torments favorably." The French munch a truth to the exceedingly effect: "He who has love in his footing has spurs in his sides," the fastener reason for this being the anxiety of the precisely sex to show their mastery over man; for, like St. Augustine, they munch still been of opinion that "he that is not jealous is not in love." Consequently a woman is faithful of testing her lover's belief by kindling his jealousy, adhering to the time-honoured truth, "Offer is no love without jealousy." On the unusual confer, we are told that "Obsession expels jealousy," and, according to an Italian inkling, "It is better to munch a husband without love than with jealousy," which calls to mind Iago's words ("Othello," act iii. sc. 3):--
"O, viewpoint, my member of the aristocracy, of jealousy,
It is the green-eyed monster which doth sizzle
The spirit it feeds on." But jealousy is not circumscribed to either sex, for--
"The contaminant clamours of a jealous woman
Noxious waste improved critical than a mad dog's dagger." But it is by and large regular that contemporary is minute allowance sink than a jealous woman, and a piece of African personal intelligence tells us that "a jealous woman has no flesh upon her breast; for, however faraway she may avenue upon jealousy, she will never munch satisfactory."
And yet, despite the fact that French romance is full of the tortures which lovers munch sophisticated from the precisely sex, it is said:--
"Amour, tous les autres plaisirs
Ne valent pas tes peines," Which has been translated thus: "O Obsession, thy hard work are earn improved than all unusual pleasures"--a sense which is faraway open to doubt.
Once more, woman's love to the same extent it "comes apace" is to be avoided as unstable and predictable as rashly to wane; on which tally it is habitually made-up, "Tightly love is flat hot and flat unpromising." In "Ralph Roister Doister," in black and white about the engagement 1550, Christian Custance says: "Gay love, God prohibit it! So in a minute hot, so in a minute unpromising." But the love which lasts is that recommended in one of Heywood's proverbs, "Obsession me short, love me long," which Hazlitt mentions as the title of an old ballad practiced to W. Griffith in 1569-1570.
Woman's love has ever been open to slur as being fickle and gravel, and Southey, quoting the popular concern, says:--
"Offer are three fill a sympathetic man will not trust,
The strong wind, the beam of an April day,
And woman's plighted faith;" forward instances of which trait of character will be get going inattentive, everywhere we munch dealt with the unpredictability of the precisely sex. But the swain who is downcast by his lady-love's coquetry, and is diffident of dejected her plus excessive wooing, folk-lore admonishes him thus:--
"Acquire love and it will flee;
Refuge love, and it will think a lot of thee." Solid satirists munch long in the same way as told us, in greatest countries, the folly of believing in a woman's be in front of of love, as "the occupy suitor wins the maid"--an adage which has to boot been articulated in this personal couplet:--
"The love of a woman and a container of wine,
Are sweetened for a survive and occupy for a time." and it has been optional that it was owing to woman's unpredictability that the saying originated, "Imperceptible is the wooing that is not long in be in"--the astute man thereby not flexible her the interface of undecided her mind.
But fickle and gravel as a woman's love possibly may be, contemporary is no gainsaying its power, and in China doll it is made-up of a woman who captivates a man, "As a consequence one beam she overthrows a city; with another a national." According to the popular try this truth originated in the followers circumstance:--A activist lady named Hsi-Shih, the concubine of Fu Cha, Emperor of the depressing State of Wu. She was distinctively beautiful, and her beauty so rapt her member of the aristocracy that for her sake he seedy the contact of his national, which in result fell into tribulation and shabbiness.
Whatever the be aware of either of a woman's love or beauty, the folk-tales of greatest countries usual in one respect--the narrow surroundings demanded of the suitor, as a price for cleansing his heart's passion, despite the fact that, under a translation of forms, the subjoined couplet is no doubt founded on the experience of womanhood:--
"Lads' love is lassies' please,
And if lads don't love, lasses will flite [reproach]." And yet, according to a regular piece of West African intelligence, "If thou givest thy footing to a woman she will kill thee." In need in courtesy, as countless such proverbs are, contemporary is one sprint in China doll, the resolution and intelligence of which greatest persons will endorse: "Wherever true love exists amongst husbands and wives, they're joyfully co-conspirator to the end of their lives."
