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and who cannot name it without pity, or abhorrence, on account of the Circumstances.
This is the Case indeed, where a Man acts such a wicked and scandalous Part; he apparently exposes and dishonours his Wife, as well as himself; nor is it sufficient to say, that the Woman dishonours her self too, or that there is much more of the Blame lies on him than on her; for as she sufficiently bears her Share of the Reproach, so she bears more of the Scandal, than the Man; nay, she exposes her self, not to the World only, but to her Husband afterward; and much might be said to that: Nor is it out of the question, for it is indeed a Matrimonial Whoredom in the literal Sense.
But as such I shall speak of it again. I am now naming it as it is a parallel Case to that 1 had been just now speaking of, wherein there is a just equality, and a proportion of Particulars very apposite to one another; for here is a horrid Complication of the like Crimes, the Man defiles his own Bed, exposes his own Wife, contaminates and corrupts his own Blood, spreads Distempers and Poison upon his own Race, and all this from one of the grossest Pieces of Immodesty, and worst of Brutality, that can be express'd in Words; an infamous kind of eagerness or appetite, ungovernable by his Reason, being unable (or pretending to be so at least) to with-hold himself from her till other Particulars might take off the little Restraints, and leave him at liberty.
Let such Men go not to the Forest and the Beasts only, for they act from a much better Motion, but to the more rational, more moderate and better governed Savages of the Indies, East or West, to the Negroes of Africa, the
