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Gentlemen, we need no Learned Scholars, nor Grave Sages to propound the Theam of our discourse in this place, and at this time; for our minds are so full of thoughts of the Female Sex, as we have no room for any other Subject or Object; wherefore let the Theam be what it will, our discourses will soon run on them: but if we could bring women as easily into our arms, as into our brains; and had we as many Mistresses in our possessions, as we have in our imaginations, we should be much more happy than we are; Nay, had we been blind, deaf, and insensible to the Sex, we had been happy, unlesse that Sex had been more kinder than they are; but they are cruel, which makes men miserable: but Na∣ture had made Beauty in vain, if not for the use of the Masculine Sex, wherfore Nature forbids restraint, and 'tis a sin against Nature for women to be In••loy∣stred, Retired, or restrained: Nay, it is not only a sin against Nature, but a grie∣vous sin against the Gods, for women to live single lives, or to vow Virgi∣nity: for if women live Virgins, there will be no Saints for Heaven, nor wor∣ship nor Adoration offred to the Gods from Earth: for if all women live Vir∣ings, the Race of Mankind will be utterly extinguished; and if it be a general sin to live Virgins, no particular can be exempted; and if it be lawfull for one to live a Virgin, it is lawfull for all; so if it be unlawfull for one, it is unlaw∣full for all; but surely the Gods would not make any thing lawful that were against themselves: But to conclude, those women which restrain them∣selves from the company and use of men, are damned, being accused by Men, judged by Nature, and condemned by the Gods.