‘For by it you are rendered infamous, and driven, like Lepers of old, out of Society; at leaſt from the Society of all but wicked and reprobate Perſons; for no others will aſſociate with you.
‘If you have Fortunes, you are hereby rendered incapable of enjoying them; if you have none, you are diſabled from acquiring any, nay almoſt of procuring your Suſtenance; for no Perſons of Character will receive you into their Houſes. Thus you are often driven by Neceſſity itſelf into a State of Shame and Miſery, which unavoidably ends in the Deſtruction of both Body and Soul.
‘Can any Pleaſure compenſate theſe Evils? Can any Temptation have Sophiſtry and Deluſion ſtrong enough to preſuade you to ſo ſimple a Bargain? Or can any carnal Appetite ſo overpower your Reaſon, or ſo totally lay it aſleep, as to prevent your flying with Affright and Terror from a Crime which carries ſuch Puniſhment always with it?
‘How baſe and mean muſt that Woman be, how void of that Dignity of‘Mind,
