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mouth'd Horse, he feels no Curb, knows no Restraint, and is guided by no Reins but those of his enraged Will.
I can describe the Article I am upon by no Mediums but those of Simily and Allegory. Decency forbids me speaking plainer than this. The Man is a Fury, and knows no limits to the Rage of his Inclination, but, pushed on by the Heat of ungoverned Nature, and supposing an unlimited Liberty is given him by the Marriage-Licence, which, by the way, is a mistake, he acts all the immodest Things imaginable with a suggested Impunity.
Hence Sodomy it self has been not only acted, but even justify'd in the Marriage-Bed; and indeed, one may be expected as well as the other; for why may we not look for one unnatural Excess, as well as another.
The Turks, 'tis a little hard I must be forced to leave the Practice of Christians, and go look among the Turks and Infidels for Examples of Modesty and Decency, but so it is; the Turks, I say, have brought this very Offence which I complain of, under the Government of their Laws; and, as I said before, it is remarkable, and a Pattern for Christians, that they try those Causes in a manner much more awful and grave than we do.
Nor is the Woman under that Restraint, which they are here, where, tho' she is perhaps grosly injured, she cannot do her self Justice, because Modesty forbids her Tongue expressing the Particulars, and describing the Fact. But there, if any unlawful Violence is offered to a Woman by her Husband, under the Liberties of the Marriage-Bed, and she finds her self soaggrieved
