held him so fast that he could not move any part downwards He implored the assistance of his Companion who refused it him and said he would not slight that opportunity which his good Angel had presented him to make him known without a Rival to his Mistress and so left his poor friend in great distress But he had not gone six paces forward before he retracted his former unkindness and made it yield to generosity and resolved to rescue him but in his return within two yards of the same place to his great grief he found himself in the same predicament Then it was that they imployed the whole force of their eloquence in abusing one-another and because they were not near enough to strike they battered themselves with the weapons which the foil afforded till they had spent all the gravel near them Their rage now with their artillery ceased and they thought it much better to unite their forces against those who had deceived them than to contend betwixt themselves When they were in these thoughts Charlotte and her Maid of a sudden issued out of a neighbouring Grove clad like good spirits though they proved not so to them all in white with white rods in their hands going round them and waving them above their heads but seeming to take no notice of them and sung We must make these Walks and Groves Free from the dreggs of mortal Loves And clear them from th'unclean abodes Of croaking froggs and creeping toads For Oberon the Fairie King Fair Mab his Queen will hither bring And they must dance and we must sing And they must c. Then they stood still and cried Come O come without delay Ye Goat Prancers of the Groves Leave your Embraces leave your Loves And cleanse the mighty Monarchs way Then entred two Servants of the house dressed like Satyrs with two great Buckets of water for a lustration and emptied upon each of their heads with that they both cried and begged they would release them which Charlotte and her Maid by laughing almost discover themselves with that the Satyrs seemed angry and said Bold Mortals how durst you be here When Oberon was to appear To prie into the unknown Rites Of Fairie Ladies and their Knights And search into the hidden sport Of the happy Fairy Court Stay till the King himself doth come With this a company of Boyes dressed like Fairies come in dancing and caper round them singing and pinching them severely the Germain much surprised and affrighted desired to know which was the King who when he was shewed to him told him that he served a mighty Emperour and one who would revenge the injuries of his Subjects when they could not enjoy the Priviledges of the Law of Nations which suffered all strangers guilty of no offence to come and go freely To whom the King said Thy Master fool doth but command Compar'd to mine an inch of Land My spacious Empire is the Air And the lov'd Breast of Mab the fair With that they contracted their Circle and only run about him and pinched till he almost awakned the house with his cries which made them all run away and leave the unfortunate Lovers as they found them where they continued till the Sun bid the World Good-morrow entertaining themselves with the strangeness of the Adventure and the many circumstances of their misfortune At this time the Gardner enters the Garden and seeing two men in this posture growing half out of the earth started back and it is possible if he had been read in the Poets he might have thought that Cadmus had killed another Dragon and had made choice of that place to sow the teeth in but he having no such sentiments presently runs in and gives the alarum to the house so that it came to the Master's ears who going to the place would have apprehended them for Theeves till his Daughter acquainted him with the whole Adventure which pleased them all as much as it displeased the unhappy Lovers who were so abused with it for it was soon spread that they were forced to remove to some more obscure place of France The next night after a little recapitulating Theogenes proceeded thus During the time of Du Perrots recovery his friend did him all the best offices he could and by his importunity he brought her to consent to an admittance of his visit which he payed with much joy but also with much submission to her for that boldness which had wrought her displeasure She received him well and excused her former severity which she said proceeded from surprise and assured him for the future of as much favour as might be consistent with the duty she was to pay her Father He now renewed his discontinued visits and daily meetings hoping by his assiduous services to work a good end In this state their love was when a thing which altered the whole affair fell out De La Hire who had all this while laboured his friends quiet was now unhappily concerned to do somewhat for his own for by often treating to advance Du Perrots loves he found flames kindied in his own breast by the same eyes Nor was Charlotte though she carried it more secretly less charmed with his graces than he with hers This accident wrought his great discontent and had almost carried him to that distemper out of which he had brought his friend who also observed it with much grief and still sollicited him though with no success to know its cause His thoughts were should I go to work mine own interest with her whom I adore I should at once prove false to her and treacherous to my friend and should I acquaint him his generosity perhaps would give more than mine could receive I will therefore repair to some solitary place and there amongst the Crags and and horrors of the thickest Groves will sigh away my life and prove my self faithful to Charlotte and true to Du Perrot This said he makes out of the Town and took the way which led to a neighbouring Wood. His friend and Mistress observing this from their window resolved to pursue him and see if they could learn any thing He had no sooner entered the place at one side but Du Perrot unseen was got in at another and Charlotte and her Maid who was her Confident at another and seated themselves under an hedge by the advantage of which they could hear and see him and be undiscovered Assoon as he was sat he took up his lute which his boy brought thither before and striking the strings sung these words which answered to the Notes Tell me oh tell me all ye Groves Within whose sacred breasts do lie The plaints and sighs of faithfull Loves Was ever one more griev'd than I Love over me a Conquest makes Whose powers you know none can withstand Friendship again those Conquests shakes And ruines with a mightier hand Love doth make th' assault again So that of a cruel warre My breast must be th'
his bow to the head and aims at the white of the Clergy's innocence accusing them for covetous and loos-livers not considering how many amongst them are neither but grant they were so we ought as men to pardon them their errors and as the servants of Heaven we ought to reverence them should we be struck so surely from above for every little sinne as we do one another our whole species had before this time been utterly destroyed and had left the World to be possess'd by sensitive beings but I fear the great concern of these pretenders will onely prove that which taketh not its source from a due principle but a sensual end the desire of possessing the Churches revenues if so oh how impious is their design surely they that serve at the Altar ought to live by it if they who serve Earthly Kings ought to live gloriously according to the dignity of their Lords then à fortiori they ought to be in all things above the rest who attend upon the Monarch of Heaven and Earth but there is one thing which would in all likelihood recover the Church and that is if the Nobility and Gentry of the Nation could be perswaded to enter into Orders by their Alliance and Interest they might bulwark themselves against those who would break in upon them through the mightiest fastnesses of their Virtue no one can be too good to attend at the Altar David was King and Priest and so were all his successors in Israel and it was imputed to the Jews for sin that they chose their Priests out of the meanest of the people for their persons being held in contempt by those who were their equals before their Office comes to be so too and the best parts also suffer when clouded with poverty Raro in tenui facundia panno It is true that Heaven lately shewed its displeasure to our Church and seated Forreigners in its fattest Sees yet it was said to them as to the Israelites when they went to possess Canaan I send you up to possess the Land of the Anakim not for your own Righteousness for you are a stiffe-necked people but to scourge the Nations which enjoy it But now we may plainly see how great the concern of Heaven is for the Church since the Ecclesiastical and politick Government are so united that they both fall and both rise together Many now shoot at her foundations but I hope she is built upon Zion which cannot be moved The points of Toleration and Comprehension have been so thorowly discuss'd that here I need but mention their names onely I must say I should be very unwilling to see either of them obtain in this Kingdom Now the Churchmen ought rather Magna vivere then Magna loqui and to shew by their own practices that the Precepts which they give may be easily obeyed The fat Bulls of Basan have prevail'd now but the Almighty hath onely crowned them with success to make them fall nobler Sacrifices to his wrath The Physitian IS to the body what the Divine is to the soul though he doth not administer his province with a parallel integrity since his Knowledge is increased Diseases are so too and our bodies by his applications are become less robust and vigorous for by relying on them our natural heat and radical humours are impaired which were our supports and not seldome the very remedy of one Malady is the cause of another but not onely from this natural cause but a more inhumane one resulteth as great an evil for to swell his own profit he often prolongeth the Agonies the Miseries of his poor Patient making himself seem to him a greater distemper then that he is already travailed with From those dry bones which none who passe by can think could live he will extract a lively and sparkling Essence to himself and he will draw sweetness from the most putrified Carcasse his Recipe whose barbarous Character fully speaketh his manners produceth two Pieces to himself then if you should recover which is more the effect of Providence then his Care the Apothecary or Chirurgeon giveth with a cruel Bill the lately cicatrized wound a new gash he visiteth you as long as the pulse of your Purse beateth high but when he findeth it to decline then he saith you grow so well that you need not his Art or your disease is so desperate that it cannot assist you his thoughts of God are not so as they ought to be for by his so frequently viewing the works of Nature he is apt to misapply and attribute too much to second Causes He adoreth that great principle of Nature Self-preservation but neglecteth that as great one of Christianity to preserve his Brother nay rather like a Cannibal he preyeth upon him though I very much honour this profession yet I must not the abuses of it though it be very necessary yet the neglects and the ill ends of the professors of it render it often dangerous for it is most certain that they not seldome by their Clothes do transferre the disease of one to the other and it is as sure that many suffer by their applying Medicines to diseases which plain Care or Nature would work off If his Fees were more moderate the Patient would receive a greater advantage and himselfe no detriment for now by the excess of them the sick person cannot see him above once in a day and there being so many critical minutes in a disease it is impossible he should prescribe for them in his absence Thus also the inferior sort of the Nation will enjoy a benefit for many who are lost for want of advice are able to give a Crown who cannot afford a Guinny it is in fine a profession which employeth the industry and study of its Professors and chargeth them with the greatest duties and care and therefore ought to be most countenanced if it impose not too much upon the World The Lawyer FRom Adam to the Flood the Law of Nature onely reigned but when wickednesses increased upon the surface of the earth God laid his commands against Murther and Bloud and afterwards as the age degenerated Laws increased and became an Asylum to the Good and a terror to the Bad. Since the concord of brethren is rare because every man preferreth his own interest Law is appointed for the preservation of the world therefore the approaches to it ought to be easie for if a Sanctuary be locked of what advantage is it to that miserable man who flieth to its protection the Law which God gave to his peculiar people which he often called stiff-neck'd and perverse was comprised within the narrow compass of two Tables and this he thought enough to bridle their greatest exorbitancies the Twelve Tables nay the Roman or Civil Law it self governed a Nation the most Great most Glorious and most Adventrous in the World which without the impertinent and indigested glosses of Bartolus and Baldus and others is of very little volume
which at last he expireth either from a bed of loathsome diseases and rottenness or from a disgraceful Gibbet with common Malefactors The Virtuoso DId rise Gloriously like light out of the Chaos and dazled the Eyes of the astonished world triumphing with a Masculine Gallantry over the impracticable Notions of the Antients but now he seemeth not to pursue his advantage with his primitive vigor which hath diminished his Fame a little for whoever treadeth the paths of Virtue ought always to be in a forward motion and by equal degrees as he advanceth in the way to double his pace till he cometh to the Goal The Great Chancellor Bacon was the Columbus who led us to this unknown America of new Philsophy since him Cartesius and Gassendus have made the greatest discoveries in her Continent to whom we shall with all willingness yield the Bays if we consider the advantages we now enjoy from their labour for all Precepts all Notions are given us from above to regulate and direct our Actions and the best of speculations are buried in oblivion if they do not produce their due effects now it is most certain that most or all of the principles of the Paripatetic Philosophy were meer Entia Rationis in intellectu tantum which now give place to Entia realia to true and beneficial Experiments doubtless it was the attempt of a most Heroick Virtue to storm the whole Circle of ancient Learning so much reverenced by Men though for 〈◊〉 other cause then its Antiquity and the perswasions they had their Fathers esteemed it as 〈◊〉 old times they honoured aged Oaks because they thought some God had kept his residence under their shades It is admirable how a body made up of 〈◊〉 many jarring and disagreeing Elements I mean opposite opinions should have obtain'd so much and gain'd so mighty at Ascendant over the affections of men of parts enough refined that they should pronounce him an Heretick who should dare to contradict the meanest of its Members bearing it up against experience which ought to be out general Mistress The English Literati have presented the World with Effects of Industry and Ingenuity most worthy of their causes they have improved the Art of Grinding Glasses which is a great advantage to Astronomy and Sea-affairs by the study of Micrography and the Anatomy of insects they have displaied a new Page of the Book of Nature they have by more exact scrutiny into humane bodies discovered the circulation and the source of many diseases and have lately oblig'd us with an experiment of the transfusion of the blood of one Animal into another which is never enough to be gratefully admired though it hath the ill fortune to be little esteemed of now but in ensuing ages it will certainly be crowned with its due applause for it is always seen that great Actions are deny'd their Bay's in that age in which they are born because Envy and prejudicate Malice the off-springs of the old Serpent detract from them The Hypothesis of Water and Air the advance of the latter being in the Air-pump a Noble mechanick invention are very rational and the inspection into the Nature of Vegetables hath much advantaged Man in the support his body will receive from them Their progress in all Physical Learning hath generally been great but upon Chymistry particularly they have spent much Labour and Oyl And here I must declare that though I honour all the ingenious and industrious I cannot be reconcil'd to those who are in pursuit of that great Magistery of Nature as they call it the Philosophers stone it is wonderful that they should consume so considerable a portion of their lives in the search of that which they know not really to be in the Created substances or if it should exist which hath so mean an end as the bringing Gold into the World which is the efficient cause of all strises and evils whose converse the good avoid because it commonly turneth even the souls of its votaries into its own Hypostasis how cruelly do they macerate themselves who search for this how they foment those scourges of our lives Hope and Fear each minute bringeth with it a promise of success which expiteth in Fumc and at last when they are just upon the Frontiers of bliss and think the next minute to embrace their wish'd for Elixit they find in their Arm onely a Caput mortuum a Terra Damnata in which they have buried perhaps their whole fortunes and the greatest number of their most hopeful years and all which at last ariseth from the expence is summed up in two or three moral Corollaries and they end their days with this Prayer in their mouths O si praeteritos reparet mihi Jupiter annes Now to return to the Virtuoso when I consider what small returns of civility we make to these ingenious persons who have obliged us so much I can find our coldness to have no other cause then what themselves do give they so readily admitting all persons into their Society who will pay the Duties of the house though they know not the terms of Philosophy make the multitude who never see the bottom of an affair judge of all from their weakness they commonly entertain the company of a Coffee-house with some refuse notions gleaned from the ingenious which they pronounce as Magisterially as if they had been secretary's to Nature and discourse as confidently of the harmony of her parts as a Countrey Musician playeth who never learned his Gam-ut From the impertinencies of these pretenders this Royal Corporation suffereth when it ought rather to be encouraged and caressed by all the Great and Learned for all the great advantages it promiseth in the future for it is most true that whosoever is a good Philosopher is a good man because no one looketh into the recesses of Nature who is not induced to extoll the Author of it and so gratefully maketh his return for the immense favours in serving and honouring him who conferred them Thus out of a Physical knowledge a Moral one starts and we see Science and Virtue have the same Basis It is certain Learning hath no Enemies but the Envious and Ignorant and even from these evils she reapeth good for from the detraction of the former she raiseth repute since nothing but Virtue is the subject of Envy and from the inveterateness of the latter she hath a benefit too since the praises of the unwise are reproaches and whosoever delighteth in them wrappeth himself in the better half of his Fools-coat and E converso his reproaches must be praises The Divine HAth the powers of cursing and absolving upon Earth and therefore ought to be reverenc'd as Gods immediate instrument Now though his injuries be many from the disaffected yet under these great pressures he ought with the Palme to lift up his head highest and to exalt his voice like a Trumpet to maintain warre against all the Champions of Vice every one bendeth
But we of this Nation are now exposed by what should be our refuge devoured by what should be our guard the Rules of our Law growing into so monstrous a body that like the famed Dragon they devour daily a considerable Member of the Virgin justice Every Term bringeth forth a collection of new Reports and every Judgement soweth the seed of a new strife betwixt the Pleaders and the Attorneys the Prize which the parties contend for is shared the latter of which is a generation of men so Magisterial where they live and so oppressing and withal so numerous that at last with the too much injur'd Client they will devour the Lawyer too who certainly hath the same ground to preferr a Bill in Parliament against them for invading his province as the Physician had against the Apothecary how unhappy are since we under the wings of a pretended justice all enormities are committed She now like a rich Heiress is bought and sold and that which should oppose deceit is it self now become the greatest so that Photinus's principle in Lucan seemeth to be the Lawyer 's Jus fas multos faciunt Ptolemae nocentes The poor Country-man when with his Hat in his hand he hath intreated his Councellour to let him buy his misery is after two or three years attendance and the charge of witnesses and journeys dismissed with the loss of his cause so that it may be said the Law like Rome in her grandeur suis ipsa viribus ruit and after a seeming trouble is told that his own mistaken instructions were the ruine of his affair But those who have long been tossed in these troublesome waters find that the safest way to an Haven is to Fee his Antagonist's Counsel as well as his own the conveyances which we make now are scarce contained in many skins of Parchment and often for the mistake of one word the whole fabrique is ruin'd though it be evidently contrary to the intent of the Conveyer Though these days are more adorn'd with Gold yet those nearer the Norman Conquest and before it more resembled the Golden ones For then a few Rhithmes composed by an honest well meaning Bard served to pass away the greatest possessions the hearts of men were sure more honest and their designs more honourable when it was enough to write I give this Lond from me and mine To thee and thine Witness Meg Maud and Margery And my young Son Harry And to shew this is in sooth I bite this green wax with my Tooth The ways to prevent suits were to appoint a Register in every County where the Estates of every Lord and Freeholder should be entred that so the Purchaser may understand for what he trafsiqueth It would also prove much more easie for all if the Parliament would enact that a summ should be difaulked from the ordinary Fees of the Lawyer and that no cause should depend in any Court above a time which they should praefix this would very much remedy the dilatoriness of their Processes It rouseth my spleen to see men so infatuated and so prone to gratifie revenge that they will ruine themselves to advance people many of whom are so great strangers to fence if diverted from the paths they run in that if one desireth to be resolved of the reason of a judgement or decree they tell you it is according to their Books by which doubtless they are frequently very much imposed on They receive the placita of their Sages with greater reverence then the Auncients did their Oracles which they thought were inspired from Heaven and attribute a greater infalibility to them then those of the Roman perswasion in Ecclesiastick affairs to the Pope forgetting that as humane they may err in their opinions setting them up above experience from which Osbourne said truly King Charles received better Precepts then his Father from Buchanan In fine we may know them to be the soul of dissention and rapine because like the issue of the Dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus they begin to bite and embroile the Nation as soon as they tread her Stage The Poet VErse to the brave is like the Trumpet to the Warriour it animates them to greater exploits * Ode Pindarique inscribed the resurrection Mr. Cowley declareth its great use in the following Stanza Not winds to Voyagers at Sea Not showers to Earth more necessary be Heavens vital seed cast on the womb of earth To give the fruitful year a birth Then Verse to Vertue which can do The Midwis's office and the Nurses too It feedeth it strongly and it cloaths it gay And when it dies with comely pride Embalmes it and erects a Pyramid That never will decay Till Heaven it self shall melt away And nought behind it stay It is reported of Alexander that in all his expeditions he made Homer his companion and I verily suppose the Panegyricks of those dead Heroes inspired him with the briskest thoughts of emulation Poetry hath been Reverenced in all ages since the very first dawn of knowledge which respect hath certainly had its source from the Oracles delivering of their answers and the ancient Philosophers setting forth their opinions in Meeter The high sentiments which the Latines entertain for it appear by their giving the Professors of it the honourable Title of Vates The Bards and Chroniclers in the Isles of Britain and Ireland have been in former times even ador'd for the Ballads in which they extoll'd the Deeds of their forefathers and since the ages have been refined doubtless England hath produced those who in this way have equall'd most of the Antients and exceeded all the Moderns Chaucer rose like the morning Starr of Wit out of those black mists of ignorance since him Spencer may deservedly challenge the Crown for though he may seem blameable in not observing decorum in some places enough and in too much in the whole countenancing Knight-errantry yet the easie similitudes the natural Pourtraicts the so refined and sublimated fancies with which he hath so bestudded every Canto of his subject will easily reach him the Guerdon and though fome may object to him that his Language is harsh and antiquated yet his design was noble to shew us that our language was expressive enough of our own sentiments and to upbraid those who have indenizon'd such numbers of forreign words since in this way so many have excell'd that we can give the Crown to no one but the rest must be manifestly injured yet they must pardon me if I tell them that they seem to have degenerated by turning their stiles to light and insignificant Sonnets and scurrilous Burlesque and offensive doggrel which last way of Drollery hath so much obtain'd now that they doubt not to abuse all serious things in it nay even to make the lofty expressions of the Prince of Poets to seem ridiculous They have not onely done this but some have turn'd that which us'd to charme our thoughtful heads and to perswade our
distemper'd spirits into gentle slumbers by easie and natural softness into a rough Mistery and Art they strive to bring wit which is of so unknown a Nature that like the wind no one knoweth whence it is under logical Notions arguing syllogistically and troubling the world with Volumes of what is impertinent to it that they may advance their own names so turning our delight into trouble 'T is a pity that men of these abilities should not ennoble some of those great subjects which our Nation yieldeth but should spend their time in praising an Eye or Feature which they may see exceeded at any Countrey Wake By this it is more evident that we have deviated from those paths which did lead our Ancestors to fame and are become so effeminate that like Sardanapalus we spin amongst the Women who by their Artifices have so wholly gain'd us that we speak or think of nothing else as commonly through our whole Malady those objects detain our thoughts most which affected them at the beginning of it and were its causes since the stage which used to represent general vices is come to reflect on particulars it self whilst it injureth the reputation of any one becometh the greatest vice Momus is not allowed to speak of all at all times Since all men are naturally prone to ill whoever is not purg'd himself cannot accuse another By these ways no Reformation is wrought but great animosities arise They who have faculties this way ought to employ them in supporting the Pyramids of ancient virtue or building new ones to it Since the Sword defends the Pen it ought to adorn the sword since the Lawrels of the brave and valorous do defend the Muses from the Thunder of their Eenemies and make them enjoy in all tranquility the shady Groves and refreshing Rills of their Parnassus they ought in grateful layes to transmit the atchievements of so great Benefactors to all posterity Vivitur ingenio Caetera mortis erunt Woman THough Man was made Lord over all beings and his Empire stretch'd it self over the whole Globe though his Imperial redence was in a place which administred all things to his pleasure and seem'd to be the abridgement and quintessence of the Universe yet he thought his enjoyments imperfect till he had an help correspondent to his affections and a fit object for those faculties with which he was endowed For this cause therefore woman was Created out of himself who seemeth to have been his best part and like that small essence which Chymists extract out of a large and massive Substance therefore Man having by his converse with the causes of all things gathered knowledge is sensible of what they of this Sex are capable and fearing lest they should Rival him in his Government imposeth on them by perswading them that their faculties are not receptive of Arts and rough Virtues and by this stratagem consineth them by the administration of a narrow Province bounded by the walls of their Court and Garden whilst he is exercis'd in the Nobler affairs of the Court and Schools when it is clear that their inclinations are better then his and their resolutions greater for it is observ'd they are generally more Virtuous and Devout then we and when they do deviate to Vice they are more hardned and persevering in it the great actions in which they have born a part speaketh the excellency of their Natures The Amazons if we believe story have excell'd in Warr. To Sappho we owe the invention of the sweetest kind of Verse in Lirique Poetry Lucretia by her resolution has rais'd her self a deathless Monument And Judith in Sacred Writ is remembred with great Glory All these examples shâ—â— the greatness of their parts which while they do not employ but are content to forgoe all the pleasures with which knowledge would present them they seem to have made a Salique Law to bind themselves Did they but consider what an ascendant they have over the souls of men and that though they were the source of all our miseries we should still adore them as also those great advantages outdull and phlegmatique constitutions own from the purifying flames of Love they would exert their powers and launch out of those dark Regions of ignorance in which they sleep into the bright and Sunny Countreys of Knowledge I offer this not 〈◊〉 encourage them to rebel against Man whom God hath made theâ— head but to advise them to serve the World under some other Noble Character and not onely to devote themselves to the uses 〈◊〉 Generation In no Countrey so many of this fair Sex as in England exceed in Beauty and Wit The first of which the Temperateness of our Climate does much advance which is in so just a proportion betwixt heat and cold that it injoyeth the benefits of both and feeleth the inconveniencies of neither If we go towards the South we find the People still a degree more swarthy if towards the North more brawny and gross built to receive the rude assaults the winds breed there though of a complexion generally clear enough that they are ingenuous above those of other Countreys is evident from their prudent management of Oeconomical affairs for on them with us they all relie which is a great Trust since the welfare of the State depends upon the health of its Members the reason of this is the so frequent and familiar converse they are allow'd with men within the bounds of Modesty which no people the French excepted admits of to such a degree And certainly in their so great strictness to this Sex the Italians those grand Masters of Pollticks do very much err For besides the injustice they act in depriving them of that liberty which God and Nature alloweth them it is impossible they should ever become more virtuous by being consin'd to the melancholly of a Cloyster which to deceive the idle hours must indulge and administer loose thoughts which with God are equivalent with 〈◊〉 when it they conversed in the world they might improve themselves in Knowledge and the diversions they would receive from the company of others would keep them from thinking ill so frequently and Modesty from acting it And it is most sure that if ever they can free themselves from those superstitious Fetters of mistaken Devotion the Flames which have been so long smother'd will burst out with such an impetuosity and violence that they will devour all inclinations to Modesty and Virtue and will never be extinguish'd in the deepest Abysses of carnal enjoyments The Maid IS Natures Richest Cabinet lock'd who yet ardently desires to display those Glories she containeth and thinketh she hath not the perfect enjoyment of them if not communicated when she hath attain'd to the use of her Organs of Speech the first word she uttereth after Dad and Mam is Husband who from that time reigneth in her thoughts so much that she maketh it her chief end to captivate him but if her Staâ—â— have so little