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 do such Children call upon their Parents to blush, every time they see the scrophulous Humours break out, in Scabs and Blisters upon the poor innocent Lamb's Faces? making them bear the unhappy Reproach of their Fathers and Mothers Conjugal Lewdness?

I need say no more to this, but to remind those that are guilty, that the more modest Brutes of the Forest, who obey the Laws of Sense, and follow the Dictates of meer Nature, do not ad thus: The Wild Ass, which the Scripture represents as the most vitiated ungoverned of all the Forest, yet the Text says, in her Months you shall find her; she has her Seasons, and so have all the rest of the beastly Creatures, and they all observe them strictly and suitably to the Reasons of Nature, Man and Woman only excepted.

I call, and I think justly too, as it respects one Part only, a Branch of Matrimonial Whoredom, and thus I keep close to my Title.

I could load this Part with a throng of Examples, a cloud of self-condemned Witnesses, and some whose Stories I can the less bear to relate without blushing, because they are arrived to such a Pitch of wickedness as to make it publick themselves without shame. But, as I said above, Nature has printed upon the tainted poisoned Faces of their Posterities, such indelible Spots, has branded them with such Marks of Infamy, that I may say of them as was said in another Case, What need any farther Witnesses? Let L D of St. A's, the beautiful Lady of, the modest and better taught Abr, and more I could name, go home and see what ha- vock