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 much, that thoe perons who have more regard to beauty than to jutice, could not refrain from exerting ome pity toward her, when they aw o lovely a kin carified with rods, in uch a manner that her back was almot flead: yet o little effect had the mart or hame of this punihment on the peron who underwent it, that the very evening he had uffered the firt whipping, he offered the goaler money, to procure her a young girl to atisty her mot montrous and unnatural deires.

But it is to be hoped that this example will be ufficient to deter all others from the commiion of any uch foul and unnatural crimes: for which, if they hould ecape the hame and ruin which they o well deerve in this world, they will be mot certain of meeting with their full punihment in the next: for unnatural affections are equally vicious and equally detetable in both exes, nay, if modety be the peculiar characteritick of the fair ex, it is in them mot hocking and odious to protitute and debae it.

In order to caution therefore that lovely ex, which, while they preerve their natural innocence and purity, will till look mot lovely in the eyes of men, the above pages have been written, which, that they might be worthy of their perual, uch trict regard hath been had to the utmot decency, that notwithtanding the ubject of this narrative be of a nature o difficult to be handled inoffenively, not a ingle word occurs through the whole, which might hock the mot delicate ear, or give offence to the puret chatity.