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130 the ex from whom they pretend to receive the chief pleaure of life; and I have frequently with full conviction retorted Pope's arcam on them; or, to peak explicitly, it has appeared to me applicable to the whole human race. A love of pleaure or way eems to divide mankind, and the huband who lords it in his little haram thinks only of his pleaure or his convenience. To uch lengths, indeed, does an intemperate love of pleaure carry ome prudent men, or worn out libertines, who marry to have a afe bed-fellow, that they educe their own wives.—Hymen banihes modety, and chate love takes its flight.

Love, conidered as an animal appetite, cannot long feed on itself without expiring. And this extinction, in its own flame, may be termed the violent death of love. But the wife who has thus been rendered licentious, will probably endeavour to fill the void left by the los of her huband's attentions; for he cannot contentedly become merely an upper ervant after having been treated like a goddes. She is till handome, and, intead of transferring her fondnes to her children, he only dreams of enjoying the unhine of life. Beides, there are many hubands o devoid of ene and parental affection, that during the firt effervecence of voluptuous fondnes they refue to let their wives uckle their children. They are only to dres and live to pleae them: and love—even innocent love, oon inks into laciviounes, when the exercie of a duty is acrificed to its indulgence.

Peronal attachment is a very happy foundation for friendhip; yet, when even two virtuous young&ensp;