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ring, Fighting and, Contending, or always Agreeing, Uniting and Joyning in their Desires and Designs: If it is indifferent whether they are as Doves always brooding under one another's Wings, or Serpents hissing at and stinging one another, such may marry Blindfold, and expect the Consequences; such a Woman may take a Man as the Sow takes the Boar in her Season, meerly to raise a Litter, meerly to gratify her brutal Part; and when that is gratify'd, and he or she perhaps surfeited with the Person, may run away to an adulterous Bargain with another, for the meer gust of Variety, as is often the Case; In short, what is Marrying, and what is the meeting of the Sexes, where Love and an original Affection is not concerned? 'tis too wicked to mention, too vile to name; to describe it would run me into the worst Sort of Levity; and I must talk as vitiously as they act that do so.
Conceive of it then in the grossest Terms you can, in Terms suited to the beastly Part, in Terms fitted to give your Thoughts the greatest Disgust, and to fill you with Detestation; for, in a word, there is nothing of Decency or Modesty, nothing Chast or Virtuous, can be said about it. It is true, every Body that does marry in this manner does not consult the Reason of the thing, and do not perhaps consider what they are doing.
They do not look into the Scandal of it, or weigh the Consequences; they desire a Man; that is indeed the Fact; 'tis in the Nature of the Thing, and cannot be denied: But the Lady does not consider what Consequences attend its being desired in such a manner; (he takes the Thing as it appears; the Man offersto
