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 xxvtt. Terra. FiIi.s. rConfcious of this truth, our wife forefithers took purge the feats of learning of there t as, there dangerous decoys of youth  as ' and precaution could not do this intirely, made aJtatute," prohibiting all "fcholars, as we grad'ates as undergraduates, of "receive in mous or/9_ ea/ed women, with whom "all feholars are 1tr8.forNd to keep company, "either in their own Ix!rate chambers, or at ttle ' houres of any :roof men." I fuppo:, it will be objefled, by the $ M A aT S, or oihets, that this flatnee extenas only to common rofiitutes, or igkt.valkers, and not to tho divine .eaturea d!gn, ified by the name of Tosvrs: but I thnk that t ndudes all fufpeed women, and efpe- daily the Tos?s, for the tollowing reffons. , Becauii it was not the only de/i of the fia- tui to reltrai, n the fcholas from debauchery (from which, th9(:e, they need no forcible refttaint!) but to prevent hem alfo from negleSing their fludies, nd enteritt, into fcandalous marriages  of which they are in o danger from tommo firum�et6 and .merceoary fi}eeet-w alkers; 2. Becaufe there was no octorion for a 1tatute aine common whores, any more than a aintt hou e- g.  Tealers wx! ?iek-?odeets, which are all pumlhable by the ia, -of the lad. .  Becau I haven bettero?inionof the Wowme 0 zfrd, (who.are, many of them, matriculated men) than to belteve. that they would. entertain in their houj}s fuch..fi/thy drabs though t is probable enough, that they woeaid marry their daughters to aclvn'fage, if they. could i in which ! can fee no greit m  thert,, '

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