xxvtt. Terra. FiIi.s. rConfcious of this truth, our wife forefithers took purge the feats of learning of there t? as, there dangerous decoys of youth ? as ' and precaution could not do this intirely, made aJtatute," prohibiting all "fcholars, as we grad'a?tes as undergraduates, of "receive in ?mous or/9?_ ?ea/ed women, with whom "all feholars are 1tr?8?.forNd to keep company, "either in their own Ix!rate chambers, or at ttle ?' houres of any :roof men." I fuppo?:, it will be objefled, by the $ M A aT S, or oihets, that this flatnee extenas only to common ?rofiitutes, or ?igkt.?valkers, and not to tho? divine .eaturea d!gn, ified by the name of Tosvrs: but I th?nk that ?t ?ndudes all fufpe?ed women, and efpe- daily the To?s?s, for the tollowing reffons. ?, Becauii it was not the only de/i? of the fia- tui? to reltrai, n the fchola?s from debauchery (from which, th9(:e, they need no forcible refttaint!) but to prevent ?hem alfo from negleSing their fludies, ?nd enteritt?, into fcandalous marriages ? of which they are in ?o danger from tommo? firum�et6 and .merceoary fi}eeet-w alkers; 2. Becaufe there was no octorion for a 1tatute ?aine? common whores, any more than a aintt hou e- g. ? ?Tealers wx! ?iek-?odeets, which are all pumlhable by the ia?,? -of the la?d. . ? Becau? I haven bettero?inionof the Wow?me? 0? ?zfrd, (who.are, many of them, matriculated men) than to belteve. that they would. entertain in their houj}s fuch..fi/thy drabs? though ?t is probable enough, that they woeaid marry their daughters to aclv?n'fage, if they. could i in which ! can fee no greit ?m ? the?r?t,, '
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