Françoise de la Chassaigne

when winning or losing against my wife and daughter, ’tis indifferent to me, as when I play in good earnest with others, for round sums.

Who for seeing me one while cold and presently very fond toward my wife, believes the one or the other to be counterfeited, is an ass.

but they moreover tell me, that I was sufficiently collected to order them to bring a horse to my wife whom on the road, I saw struggling and tiring herself which is hilly and rugged.

And I know not whether I had not much rather have begot a very beautiful one, through society with the Muses, than by lying with my wife.

I put my wife to it, as a concern of her own, leaving her, by my absence, the whole government of my affairs.

I love to lie hard and alone, even without my wife, as kings do;