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What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

This is an Englishwoman's proverb. The Italian sisterhood complain that "In men every mortal sin is venial; in women every venial sin is mortal."ssss1 These are almost the only proverbs relating to women in which justice is done to them, all the rest being manifestly the work of the unfair sex.

If a woman were as little as she is good,

A peascod would make her a gown and a hood.

This is Ray's version of an Italian slander.ssss1 The Germans say, "Every woman would rather be handsome than good;"ssss1 and that, indeed, "There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found."ssss1 The French, in spite of their pretended gallantry, have the coarseness to declare that "A man of straw is worth a woman of gold;"ssss1 and even the Spaniard, who sometimes speaks words of stately courtesy towards the female sex, advises you to "Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one."ssss1