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 ‘For by it you are rendered infamous, and driven, like Lepers of old, out of Society; at leat from the Society of all but wicked and reprobate Perons; for no others will aociate with you.

‘If you have Fortunes, you are hereby rendered incapable of enjoying them; if you have none, you are diabled from acquiring any, nay almot of procuring your Sutenance; for no Perons of Character will receive you into their Houes. Thus you are often driven by Neceity itelf into a State of Shame and Miery, which unavoidably ends in the Detruction of both Body and Soul.

‘Can any Pleaure compenate thee Evils? Can any Temptation have Sophitry and Deluion trong enough to preuade you to o imple a Bargain? Or can any carnal Appetite o overpower your Reaon, or o totally lay it aleep, as to prevent your flying with Affright and Terror from a Crime which carries uch Punihment always with it?

‘How bae and mean mut that Woman be, how void of that Dignity of