But what was yet more surprising, the owner of this natural curiosity (through the want of occasions in the strictness of his home-breeding, and the little time he had been in town not having afforded him one) was hitherto an absolute stranger, in practice at least, to the use of all that manhood he was so nobly stock'd with; and it now fell to my lot to stand his first trial of it, if I could resolve to run the risques of its disproportion to that tender part of me, which such an over-siz'd machine was very fit to lay in ruins.
But it was now of the latest to deliberate, for by this time, the young fellow, overheated with the present objects, and too high mettl'd to be longer curb'd in by that modesty and awe which had hitherto restrain'd him, ventur'd, under the stronger impulse and instructive promptership of nature alone, to slip his hands, trembling with eager impetuous desires, under my petty-coats, and seeing, I suppose, nothing extremely severe in my looks to stop, or dash him, he feels out
