unequal Subject. Carnal Luft or Lafciviousnefs will foon impair the Strength, and destroy the Vigour of your natural Conftitution, be it never fo robuft. It will ftrangely weaken all your noble Faculties, infeeble your fprightly Parts, and exhauft your manly Spirits, as well as drein your fulleft Coffers, and confound your immenfeft Treafure. It will bring you to the following of fuch fatal Courses, and taking fuch pernicious Measures, as have infatuated the greateft Monarchs; and not only fool'd, but also poifon'd fome Princes, and murder'd many Kings in Chronicle. In fine, it will at leaft indanger your dear Perfon, or leffen your Prerogative, by the Neglect of your Government; and involve either your Royal Self, or your prostituted Kingdoms, in utter Ruin, Deftruction and Defolation. But Chastity, on the contrary, will strengthen your Body, invigorate your Mind, preferve your Health, and enhance your Treasury with accumulated Riches. It will make you as Profperous, Praife-worthy, Sound, Safe and Secure upon the Throne, by its fupporting Power and Applaufe, as you appear now admirably glorious in the Eyes of all Ifrael. In a Word, it will more and more illuftrate your facred Perfon, and extend your Fame to the farthest Regions.

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REMARKS.

ERE begins the glorious Leffon; fo incomparably fine, inftructive, and fit for a Prince, that nothing less than Heaven could direct her Majefty in this particular Precept of living with the utmoft Satisfaction of Life,

Liberty

Liberty and Honour; entirely undebauch'd and untainted, either in Morals or Intellectuals.

COULD any Thing but God Almighty himself, or good Divinity,have induc'd, infpir'd or authoriz'd a pious Mother to give better Advice, and wholesomer Counsel,to her Off-fpring of either Sex, than this is, in all Points of Safety, Benefit and Bleffing to the latest Pofterity? As if the had faid in a more familiar Manner: My dutiful Child, do not follow Whores. They will quickly bring thee to a Morfel of Bread, and the extreme Want of all Neceffaries and Supports of thy Being. The flattering Lips of a deluding Stranger, may be as sweet as Honey to thy Tafte. Her Courtefies may be fine, and her Kiffes drop as mellifluously as the lushious Comb it felf: but they will prove as bitter as Gall in thy Stomach. They will rife and reproach thee in their Digeftion. The Brutes themfelves do not chew the Cud in vain. They will emaciate thy Youth, deform by Beauty, enervate thy Vigour, emafculate thy Virtue, and destroy the Health and Valour of thy whole Body. Such forward, fond, foolish Effeminacies, will depreciate thy Manhood, and humble thee to be a Slave to any termag ant Slut, mercenary Strumpet, or lafcivious Wanton: So that thy Life and Soul will be in Danger as well as thy Purfe, or the Treasure of thy Pocket at Stake; not to say worse. To say nothing of innumerable Difafters, Difeafes, and the Bill of Mortality in the End; which will make thee prefently fall an unlamented Sacrifice to Whoredom. In this good Admonition are contain'd the very Iffues of a happy Life.

KINGS are no fafer than the meaneft Cullies, under the curfed Allurements and fatal Fruitions of a lewd Woman; for the pernicious Jilt equally rejoices at the Destruction and Down

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fall, either of the great or the little Sinner. 'Tis far below the Dignity of humane Nature and right Reason, in either the one or the other, to be fo guilty of the Brute; begging Pardon for the odious and difproportionable Comparifon But the Sin is the fame in both, to pursue the Ways of that wicked Wretch, that strange Monster, which leads and hurries on an ungovernable Letcher, young or old, to nothing but downright Deftruction, or the imminent Danger of Mifery, Disgrace, and Dif appointment of greater Happiness, with a long Train of & catera's, and a large Catalogue of Evils, not fit to be mention'd in the Prefence or Hearing of chaft Ears.

CHASTITY, that charming Virtue, if not altogether Celestial, produces the most amiable Effects of Prudence, Piety and Devotion; which, at first View, checks, fubdues, and entirely banishes every lufhious Thought, lafcivious Word, or luftful Action. It curbs all filthy Paffions, and corrects all unlawful Appetites, which are moft violent and head-ftrong in young People; but more especially in youthful Kings and Princes of arbitrary Inclination; who are liable to greater Temptations, and apt to take greater Liberties in their Lufts, than other Men of inferiour Rank, Power, and Authority. They are more expos'd to Provocations than their Subjects, without Controul or Reftraint, by their publick Character, Privilege or Prerogative. But this Violence against Virtue has often prov'd the Bane of crown'd Heads and Kingdoms, as well as private Patriots or poorer Perfons; irreparably log in the Sink of Debauchery, and irrecoverably funk into the Dregs of DestruЄtion.

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HOW ungovernable is this brutal Paffion! Offering Violence to Virgins, forcing the Fair, and taking other People's Wives from them, either by Compulfion, Confent or Delufion, are all of a Piece, equally deftructive as well as dishonourable. I need only mention, for Satisfaction in this Point, the fatal Tragedies of Old, which have infued from violent Rapes, notorious Debaucheries, or incestuous Marriages. As for Inftance. 'Tis remarkable, how the barbarous Ravishment of chaft Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius, quickly chang'd the Roman Government; destroy'd Monarchy it felf for a long Time; and made a tragical Revolution of national Affairs for a worfe Form, either Ariftocratical or Republican; till the great Cafar turn'd the Tables, overthrew their ufurp'd Common-wealth, and wrought the Imperial Reftauration. After many publick Lapfes and Relapfes of this unchaft libidinous Nature, let us only confider the melancholy Story of Mark Anthony's falling in Love with the beautiful Cleopatra; leaving his lawful Wife, and defiling her Marriage-Bed: Upon which, the gallant Auguftus defeated him in a Sea-Fight, and drove him to Defpair: fo that it cost him his Life, by laying violent Hands on himself, and fhe loft hers, by clapping poisonous Afps to her Breafts, in the Extremity of that unfortunate Amour. We need caft but half an Eye upon the fad History of Oedipus and Focafta, to find out the miferable Fatality, or forrowful Catastrophe of committing Inceft: which, how fabulous foever, will afford us an excellent Moral. He married his own Mother, it feems; neither of them knowing any Thing of the Matter, as to their Kindred or Confanguinity: And yet upon a full Discovery of their unlucky Mistake and Misfortune,

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he pull'd out his own Eyes for Grief and Madnefs; fhe kill'd her felf for Vexation; and their Sons flew one another for very Trouble, almost to the utter Extinction of their Iffue in the forlorn Family. But then how much more abominable would this Crime be, if it fhould at any Time be wittingly done, with the greateft Boldness, Liberty or Prefumption! However, to be brief on that. Head, all left-handed Wives and loofe Concubines alfo, in private or publick, as well as Bigamy, Polygamy, and MockMarriages, fall under this fevere Reflection; or deferve fome smarter Remark. But let us return again to our glorious Virtue.

I. AS to the Body, Chastity gives Beauty to the Countenance, brightens the Eyes like fparkling Diamonds,and illuftrates both the fairest Complection and exacteft Symmetry of the whole Microcofm. It renders all the Compofition lively, gay and brisk; beautified with a pleasant Afpect, fmiling Chearfulness, and fluttering Innocence, to the Admiration of the inamour'd Beholder. It makes It makes the Features look fine, plump, and ferene in the Face of Converfation. It fets off the natural Colour of the Cheeks to the Life, with greater Luftre. It invigorates the lovely Compofitum, every Limb of it; and there is not a Joint, but it ftrengthens as well as beautifies, and corrobrates as well as refines the Part. It does not only preferve, prolong and insure the Duration of Healthfulnefs; but also embellishes the whole Form, and establishes the very Frame of the Body in its Well-being. In fine, the ineftimable Gift of Continency wants nothing but a fortunate Marriage to reward its Merit, and to compleat the Felicity of a deferving Husband. Chastity in

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