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“Fortes creantur fortibus & bonis:

“Est in Juvencis, est in equis patrum

“Virtus: nec imbellem feroces

“Progenerant Aquilæ Columbam.

To valiant Fathers, valiant Sons succeed;

Thus Bulls from Bulls descend, and martial Horses breed.

AND because the Institution of Nature, perfects its own Gifts, which, by the Help of Education, corrects Errors, and abolishes Blemishes; the Poet very pertinently adds,

“Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam,

“Rectíq; Mores pectora roborant.

Yet the best Blood by Learning is refin’d,

And Virtue arms the solid Mind;

Whilst Vice will stain the noblest Race,

And the paternal Stamp efface.

BUT, however yet, there are many Parents still less salacious and less fervid; who rather vilify, than covet, and rather abstain from, than delight themselves in this Encounter. In short, there are some of both Sexes, who, in patiently gratifying their active Consorts, esteem it rather a sort of Hardship and TASK for Family-Quiet, than any incumbent DUTY of Nuptial Benevolence; Which^[50]St. Paul seems to allude to, by calling it the defrauding of one the other.