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154 Manners, and o we make a hift in ome ort to Legitimate the Abue. In Jupiter's appointing thee Frauds, we read the Power of Humane Frailty that Dipoes us to Entertain them: For we are Fale enough by Nature without any need of Precription.

AN was made in uch a Hurry (according to the Old Fable) that Jupiter had forgotten to put Modety into the Compoition, among his other Affections; and finding that there was no Way of Introducing it afterwards, Man by Man, he Propos’d the turning of it Looe among the Multitude: Modety took her elf at firt to be a Little hardly Dealt withal, but in the End, came over to Agree to't, upon Condition that Carnal Love might not be uffer'd to come into the ame Company; for wherever that comes, ays he, I’m Gone.

THE Extravagant Heats and Tranports of Lovers, and Voluptuaries, take away all Shame. This Fable Hints to us the Wild Extravagances of an Unbridled Appetite, and that till that Devil be laid, there can be no Thought of Lodging Carnal Love and Modety under the ame Roof. Jupiter's forgetting Modety in the Compoition of Man, Intimates the Difficulty of Admitting it, till Fleh and Blood has done the Friendly Office towards the Peopling of the World; for there’s hardly any Place for Councel, till thee Heats arc in ome Meafure taken off; and it is no Wonder, that when Love comes to be without Reaon, it hould be without Modety too; for when 'tis once pat Government, it is conequently pat Shame. When Our Corruptions, in fine, are Strong, and Our Underlandings Weak, we are apter to Hearken to the Motions of the Blood, and to the Vain Imaginations of a Deprav'd Affection, then to the Dry Doctrines and Precepts of Authority and Vertue,

This Difficulty of keeping Young and Hot Blood in Order, does mightily Enforce the Neceity of an Early Care for the Training up of Children, and giving them a Tincture, before it be too Late, of thoe Docctrines and Principles, by which they are afterward to Govern the Whole Frame of their Lives. For in their Tender Years they are more Suceptible of Profitable and Vertuous Impreions, then afterwards, when they come to be Sollicited by the Impule of Common, and Vulgar Inclinations. They