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love and efleem her hufband in carnett." Petrus<br />
Petrmus, in his chronicle of Mufcovy, tells us the<br />
fame Rory, with this addition, that hufbands ufually<br />
provided whips after their wedding for the fame pur-<br />
pofe, and reckon them among the houfehold gods of<br />
the family. Perhaps we may draw a reafon from<br />
what has been faid of this bitter fweet love, for thefe<br />
beatings are not ufed by way of correcction or amend-<br />
ment: for bad women (if there are any fuch) arc<br />
neither to be reftrained by threatenings or paffion, no,<br />
nor if they were to beat out their teeth with a flint, as<br />
Simonides expreffes it in his fragment preferved by<br />
Stobxus ; but a good hufband is fo far from torment-<br />
ing the dear bofom of his wife with firokes, that he<br />
had rather do as the man in Seneca did, affli6t him-<br />
fell, and make his wife fuffer by proxy.<br />
I have determined, as well as your father, Mei-<br />
bomius, has, that by flogging of the loins, and heating<br />
the reins, the matter of the feed is either quickened<br />
or increafed, and how that fhould be performed by<br />
the circulation of the blood in the reins I have long<br />
fince fhewn in my Anatomy Reformed, from Sen-<br />
nertus, Othafius, and Wormius ; all which, if it will<br />
not
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