A just and seasonable reprehension of naked breasts and shoulders written by a grave and learned papist ; translated by Edward Cooke, Esquire ; with a preface by Mr. Richard Baxter.
Boileau, Jacques, 1635-1716., Cooke, Edward, fl. 1678.

LXVII.

IF ALL that I have said was not sufficient to prove that the na∣kedness of Breasts is blameable and offensive, and to answer the excuses which Maids and Women bring, it would not be very diffi∣cult for me to convince them by new Arguments, and by more Authorities. But because I would not swell this Treatise to too large a Volume, but would make it profitable without having Page  148 it over-troublesome, I will close up all in conjuring those, who do so much boast of their honesty and vertue, to take heed lest by their nakedness they conform themselves so mightily to the Cur∣tisans, as to have scarce any but God alone to be able to know the difference that is between them: why will they imitate those in their manner of dressing, whose actions they condemn? or rather, why do they imitate the actions, and outward carriage of those, whose disorderly conduct they so much blame? they are like them in what appears, and yet pretend to be very unlike them in what does not. What Judgment can men make of them, who do not Judge but by what they see?