S . Sea.4, The carafes why rnboe. domefo a. ioodetb,_ t 30 That whoredome in thefe dales much aboundeth. and infeaious, efpecially in the outparts andCuburbsofour greater} cities . And though the commonpert be eared and emptiedofthereperfons infectedwith the cótagiousplague ofvnckanneffe,yet thedanger is newer the letfe, feting they arenot cured or their dileaíes,but onely remooued and feat- wed in the garden houles; where they lie hid from thole onely which fl ould reforme or punifh them, andnot from thole who may be infected or corrupted by them : yea in truth theperil! is hereby accidentally increafed, becaufe the contagion is dir ferfed into many places; intowhich many of our people vnwittingly reforting are infeeted at vna- wares , and fall into the fecret ambufhments of thefe fltby harlots when they leafy fulpeft any danger: and thole who arc ill dilpofedhaueno leffe free acceife to thereplaces,then they formerlyhad to the common flewcs,, and with le% feare of(hame,or note of infamy,becaule their haunt is now morefecret and vnfufpec1ed. So that there vnfauory (incites arc onely (lined in, but not cleanfed; and thcfecorrupt hu- niours in the body ofour State, arc oriclya little mooued, but not remooued andpurged away. And this cornmeal to patíe , not onelybecaufe we being in ourowne natures too too corrupt, haue this corruption much increafed by the example of forraine countries, into whichour youth traueliing , learne their vices fooner then their languagc,and leauing the fragrant flowers of their vet- tues vntouched doe beetle-like fucke in thedung of their corruptions; but alfo becaufe the rnindesofourpeoplecon- tinue Gill fomewhat fowred with the kauen of the popish doctrine and praCtife , whichpaffe owes thefe (tunes of vn- cleannetfe as being flips of youth, and but veniall faults of (light regard , whichmaybe denied and done away by au- ricular confcfl on, and the vndergoing of fome (mall pe- nanceat the priefts appointment, who is oftentimes more faulty and filthy then themfelues. And to thefe we may adds. the toogreatmildnefleofour lawes,which impofèouer light puraifhments vpon there hainous finnes ; a the i'tanding in a white fhecte, or at mot a few (tripes with a whip, which Potwithftanding is oftentimes not infit;4cd, partly through the AMR
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