SECT. XXI. Rauishment i• in two sorts.

THere are two kindes of Rape, of which though the ••• be called by the com••• people, and by the Law it selfe, Rauishment; yet in my conceit it borroweth the name from r•pere, but vnproperly, for it is no more but Species stup••, a hideous hatefull kinde of whoredome in him which committeth it, when a wom•n is enforced violently to sustaine the furie of brutish conc•piscence: but she is left where she is found, as in her owne house or Page  378 bed, as Lucrece was, and not hurried away, as Helen by Paris, or as the Sabine women were by the Romans, for that is both by nature of the word, and definition of the matter: The second and right rauishment, Cum quis leo∣nestae f•mae soeminam, siue virgo, siue vidua, siue sanctimo∣nialis sit inuitis illis in quorum est potestate, abducit. Ne∣que refert, an quis (volente vel nolente rapta) id faciat, nam vis quae Parentibus vel Curatoribus fit, moxime spectat. It seemeth the first kinde of rape deserued alwayes death by Gods Lawes, vnlesse the woman rauished were vnbe∣trothed, so that the rauisher might marrie her, as you may read Deuteronomy, chap. 22. vers. 23. and by the Ci∣uill Law. Raptores, in the second kinde, subjiciebantur poenae mortis rapta si fue•t ingenua. How hainous they bée both, and haue a long time béene, by the Lawes of England, yée shall now perceiue.