This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
What, can the devil speak true?
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?