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wno nas practifed lawful love, and yet perceives his<br />
loins and fides languid (the fubje& of this treatife),<br />
may not, without the imputation of any crime, make<br />
ufe of the fame method, in order to difcharge a debt<br />
which I won't fay is due, but to pleafe the creditor ?<br />
More plainly, the perfon that I would defcribe is fuch.<br />
as Virgil does in the third book of his Georgicks<br />
Fri gidus in Venerem fertus fru/II-ague laborem,<br />
.7ucundum trabit, & fi quando ad ft, rcelia ventum,<br />
Ut quando injhpvlis vanus fine viribus j rjs<br />
- Incagum furit, &c.<br />
Languid and cold, he moves to work with pain,<br />
And dribbles at the lovely fport in vain ;<br />
When at the belt, 'tis like a ftubble fir'd,<br />
Flathes in hafte, and is in hafte expired.<br />
Well, friend Caffius, why may not the remedy be<br />
made ufe of in the circumftances fuppofed ? That you<br />
have no occafion for it I am ready to take a thoufand<br />
oaths. Z , who am a phyficiati, and from my own<br />
profeffion either know or ought to know, and give<br />
a ihrewd judgment that way, long fince prefumed I<br />
was no falfe gueffer on your fide. Your young wife's<br />
great
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