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VOLUMINOUS.N.SS Redundancies ...... patent 2 [Body] 3
[And this [contrivance] by a great with great consistency & comprehension
[of Intellect] has is have extended whithersoever in
a manner the subject will admitt of it, throughout
the Law]
From the same exactness too it is required that a Rape committed
on a Woman must be absolutely be committed
on her Body & nothing else; that the
Descendants of a man be the descendants
of the his body, & not produced by mere strength
of imagination, or nor out of his Head, like
Minerva out of Jupiter's.
And from the same attention to delicacy, that a Virgin
at the eve of Matrimony is to hear so
much before from the Lawyer's Clerk
about her Body & the Issue that in God's good time
is to be begotten by the Gentleman who sits by her upon the same.
'Twas in pursuance of the same Etiquette
That the Lords and Commons of this Realm
in one of their discourses to their female Sovereign
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omitted not to entertain her at all convenient
passages || || tho not altogether in such luscious terms as their Ancestors had entertained one of her predecessors at upon the subject of a Bride of his ... A. 8. c. about the begettings that were to be
performed upon her's. + + An. c. th. The only misfortune addition
that could be wished is that instead of the discoursesis, that there the matters should rest
resting in these general explanations, without descending it should descend a
little more minutely in to particulars, by which any further into those particulars
means a twofold edification might go on
at the same time in two separate Sciences, &
the reader hearers might be instructed in
Anatomy as well as Law.
pureness of fleshe & Blood would be apt to conceive Issue by his Highness
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