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If the Ladies will speak, the Boys and Girls in the Street will never hold their Tongues. When the Secrets of the Bed-Chamber become no longer Secrets, and the Wife shall publish her own Shame, who can she think will conceal it? When she ceases to Blush, who will Blush for her?
But 'tis enough; let us touch this vile Part with as light a Stroke as possible, and you must be content to go without the modest Lady S——— B———'s Story; as also the diverting Complaint of Madam Arab.with that of the new-married Alderman ———'s Lady, and several more of the discontented Part of this modest Town, unless you please to get an Account of them from their own Mouths, which they are most ready to do on all Occasions, as publick as you please, Men, Boys and Midwives, being present.
This is the Effect of marrying without Affection, without a serious, preingaged Soul, without mutual and unfeigned Complaisance and Delight one in another; in a word, this is what I call Matrimonial Whoredom; if I miscal it, let me be convinced by the better Behaviour of the Persons, that I slander the state of Life thus entered into, and then I shall acknowledge my Error; and it cannot be reasonably expected of me before.
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