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 "The charms her down caſt conceal'd.

"That very moment, love, and chaſte deſire

"Sprung, in his boſom to himſelf unknown,

"And as he run her, ardent, o'er and o'er,

"Love, gratitude, and pity, wept at once.

"Confus'd, and frighten'd at his ſudden tears,

"Her riſing beauties flaſh'd a higher bloom"

The Spectator, in one of his ſpeculations, attribute all the jarring miſchiefs of the married ſtate, to an immodeſt deportment after marriage: And Dean Swift gives us a very wanton account to the ſame tendency, where he tells us how Celia cured her lover, by being guilty of ſome indecencies at his very elbow, and thereby convinced him of his mistake, in taking her before marriage for a goddeſs or an angel and it was no great wonder that the Cupids, who were hovering round the bed, beat a final or farewel retreat, and gave way to laſting and loathſome diſguſt, when the young lady naſtily ſaid aſide all decent reſerve, by ſacrificing Modeſty at the after of Hymen, at a quality not uſeful in the conjugal ſtate.

Man was made in ſuch a hurry, according to the old fable, that Jupiter had forgot to put Modeſty into the compoſition, among his other affections: and finding that there was no way of introducing it afterwards, man by man, he propoſed the turning of it looſe among the multitude Modeſty took herſelf at first to be a little hardly dealt with, but in the end came over to agree to it, upon condition that carnal love might not be ſuffered to come into the ſame company; for wherever that comes, ſays Modeſty, I am gone.

Senſual love knows neither bars nor bounds We are all naturally impudent: only by cuſtom, and fig leaves, we have been taught to diſguiſe the matter, and look demurely. Gentlemen, this is what we call Modeſty.

The extravagant heats and tranſports of lovers and voluptuaries take away all ſhame, and till that devil of an unbridled appetite be laid, there can be no thought