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  • Landlords; if I pray'd in the Temple, it was deem'd Hypocrisy; if I treated my Friends, it was Lewdness; if I requir'd any just Debt, it was

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  • Grimace tending to Lewdness, or cunning Artifice, out of the Way of Rural

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  • Embraces of a Prostitute, and break my Marriage − Vows to the best and fairest of her Sex, and then project an incestuous Marriage betwixt my only lawful Offspring and the Son of my Lewdness; and, as if these had been but petty Crimes, attempt the most detestable in Nature, on the

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  • In this I could not but again admire the exact Justice of Heaven, in thus punishing her Lewdness and Disobedience to her Parents.

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  • Lewdness is not approv'd in Youth, nor Moroseness made the Character of Old Age; the latter of which, I think, has been the crying Fault of many of these Kinds of Writings.

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  • And now I liv'd in a regular way of Lewdness; I pass'd my Days in

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  • Opera's; I perk'd up in the Face of Quality, and was a Companion for my Betters: Thus I liv'd in Lewdness and Profaness.

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  • House, said I (in reproaching my self) to have been the Receptacle of her numerous Cullies, and furnish'd it for the service of her Lewdness.

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  • Husband: For I was so chagrin'd with this Adventure, that Lewdness became nauceous to me; and I believe, there are few Husbands so abandoned, but a sweet − tempered Woman might find an Interval to reclaim: But I was not so happy in this Juncture.

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  • Shame; in order to which, she made Acquaintance with some Sea − men, who took her on Board, where she was diliver'd of the Fruit of her Lewdness; and not many Days after the Ship was cast away, and she was taken up by the foremention'd Sea − Monster, and liv'd with him ever since as his Wife.

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