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“gether, it will quench but if you give it any vent, it will rage.
As fo
“Maſculine Love, they have no touch of it, and yet there are not ſo faith-
“ful and inviolate. Friendſh ps in the World again as are there; and to
“ſpeak generally (as I faid before) I have not read of any ſuch Chaſtity in
“any People as theirs. And their uſual ſaying is, That whoſoever is unchaſte,
“cannot reverence himſelf. And they ſay, That the reverence of a Mans ſelſ
“is, next Religion, the chiefeſt Bricle of all Vices. And when he had ſaid
this, the good Jevv pauſed a little. Whereupon, I far more willing to hear
him ſpeak on, than to ſpeak my ſelf; yet thinking it decent, that upon his
pauſe of Speech I ſhould not be altogether ſilent, ſaid onely this. “That I
“would ſay to him, as the Widow of Sarepta ſaid to Elias, That he was
“come to bring to memory ourſins; and that I confeſs the righteouſneſs of
“Benſalem was greater than the righteouſneſs of Europe. At vvhich Speech, he
bovved his Head, and vvent on in this manner. “They have alſo many wiſe and
“excellent Lawstouching Marliage; they allow no Polygamy; they have
“ordained, that none do intermarry or contract until a moneth be paſt from
“their firſt interview. Marriage without conſent of Parents, they do not
“make void, but they mulct it in the Inheritors; for the Children of ſuch
“Marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third part of their Parents
“Inheritance. I have read in a Book of one of your Men, of a Feigned
“Common wealth, where the married couple are permitted before they
“contract to ſee one another naked. This they diſſike, for they hink it a
“ſcorn to give a refuſal after ſo familiar knowledge; but becauſe of many
“nidden defects in Men and Womens Bodies, they have a more civil way;
“for they have near every Town, a couple of Pools (which they call
“Adam and Eves Pools) where it is permitted to one of the Friends of the
“Man, and another of the Eriends of the Woman, to ſee them ſeverally
“bath naked.
“Maſculine Love, they have no touch of it, and yet there are not ſo faith-
“ful and inviolate. Friendſh ps in the World again as are there; and to
“ſpeak generally (as I faid before) I have not read of any ſuch Chaſtity in
“any People as theirs. And their uſual ſaying is, That whoſoever is unchaſte,
“cannot reverence himſelf. And they ſay, That the reverence of a Mans ſelſ
“is, next Religion, the chiefeſt Bricle of all Vices. And when he had ſaid
this, the good Jevv pauſed a little. Whereupon, I far more willing to hear
him ſpeak on, than to ſpeak my ſelf; yet thinking it decent, that upon his
pauſe of Speech I ſhould not be altogether ſilent, ſaid onely this. “That I
“would ſay to him, as the Widow of Sarepta ſaid to Elias, That he was
“come to bring to memory ourſins; and that I confeſs the righteouſneſs of
“Benſalem was greater than the righteouſneſs of Europe. At vvhich Speech, he
bovved his Head, and vvent on in this manner. “They have alſo many wiſe and
“excellent Lawstouching Marliage; they allow no Polygamy; they have
“ordained, that none do intermarry or contract until a moneth be paſt from
“their firſt interview. Marriage without conſent of Parents, they do not
“make void, but they mulct it in the Inheritors; for the Children of ſuch
“Marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third part of their Parents
“Inheritance. I have read in a Book of one of your Men, of a Feigned
“Common wealth, where the married couple are permitted before they
“contract to ſee one another naked. This they diſſike, for they hink it a
“ſcorn to give a refuſal after ſo familiar knowledge; but becauſe of many
“nidden defects in Men and Womens Bodies, they have a more civil way;
“for they have near every Town, a couple of Pools (which they call
“Adam and Eves Pools) where it is permitted to one of the Friends of the
“Man, and another of the Eriends of the Woman, to ſee them ſeverally
“bath naked.
And as we were thus in Conference, there came one that ſeemed to be
a Meſſenger, in a rich Huke, that ſpake with the Jevv; whereupon he
turned to me, and ſaid, You vvill pardon me, for I am commanded avvay in haſte.
The nex@ morning he came to me again, joyful, as it ſeemed, and ſaid,
“There is word come to the Governor of the City, that one of the Fathers
“of Solomons Houſe will be here this day ſeven-night; we have ſeen none of
“them this dozen years. His coming is in ſtate, but the cauſe of his coming
“is ſecret. I will provide you and your Fellows of a good ſtanding to ſee
“his entry. I thanked him, and told him, I was moſt glad of the nevvs. The
day being come, he made his entry. He was a Man of middle ſtature and
age, comely of perſon, and had an aſpect as if he pitied men: He was
cloathed in a @obe of fine black Cloth, with wide Sleeves, and a Cape;
his under Garment was of excellent white Linnen down to the Foot,
girt with a Girdle of the ſame, and a Sindon or Tippet of the ſame about
his Neck; he had Gloves that were curious, and ſet with Stone, and Shooes
of Peach-coloured Velvet; his Neck was bare to the Shoulders; his Hat
was like a Helmet or Spaniſh Montera, and his Locks curled below it de-
cently, they were of colour brown; his Beard was cut round, and of the
ſame colour with his Hair, ſomewhat lighter. He was carried in a rich
Chariot without Wheels, Litter-wife, with two Horſes at either end,
richly trapped in blew Velvet embroidered, and two Footmen on each
ſide in the like attire. The Chariot was all of Cedar, gilt and adorned
with Cryſtal, ſave that the fore-end had Pannels of Saphires ſet in borders
of Gold, and the hinder-end the like of Emeralds of the Peru colour.
a Meſſenger, in a rich Huke, that ſpake with the Jevv; whereupon he
turned to me, and ſaid, You vvill pardon me, for I am commanded avvay in haſte.
The nex@ morning he came to me again, joyful, as it ſeemed, and ſaid,
“There is word come to the Governor of the City, that one of the Fathers
“of Solomons Houſe will be here this day ſeven-night; we have ſeen none of
“them this dozen years. His coming is in ſtate, but the cauſe of his coming
“is ſecret. I will provide you and your Fellows of a good ſtanding to ſee
“his entry. I thanked him, and told him, I was moſt glad of the nevvs. The
day being come, he made his entry. He was a Man of middle ſtature and
age, comely of perſon, and had an aſpect as if he pitied men: He was
cloathed in a @obe of fine black Cloth, with wide Sleeves, and a Cape;
his under Garment was of excellent white Linnen down to the Foot,
girt with a Girdle of the ſame, and a Sindon or Tippet of the ſame about
his Neck; he had Gloves that were curious, and ſet with Stone, and Shooes
of Peach-coloured Velvet; his Neck was bare to the Shoulders; his Hat
was like a Helmet or Spaniſh Montera, and his Locks curled below it de-
cently, they were of colour brown; his Beard was cut round, and of the
ſame colour with his Hair, ſomewhat lighter. He was carried in a rich
Chariot without Wheels, Litter-wife, with two Horſes at either end,
richly trapped in blew Velvet embroidered, and two Footmen on each
ſide in the like attire. The Chariot was all of Cedar, gilt and adorned
with Cryſtal, ſave that the fore-end had Pannels of Saphires ſet in borders
of Gold, and the hinder-end the like of Emeralds of the Peru colour.