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II. BY reason the several Branches of these Heads are so very many and different, that to discuss ’em all Here, as I ought to do, would too much swell the Bulk of the Volume, and enhance the Price of this BOOK; which I design for the Good of the poorer Sort of Women, as well as the Benefit of the Rich. However, what is most Essential and necessarily Requisite, shall not be omitted (at least coincidently) in its proper Place. Wherefore I shall leave the Virgin, after a digressive Hint in the following Section, upon her darling Passion, [LOVE]: and supposing her to have alter’d her Condition, I shall thenceforward treat her as a Wife.
CHAP. IV. Of LOVE.
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LOVE is the first Impression that affects the Appetite; proceeding from the Pleasure conceiv’d in a Real or Imaginary GOOD.
IT is the CEMENT of Affections, and the Effect of a certain Congruity of Minds; sympathetically arising from the DIASTOLE and SYSTOLE of affected Hearts.
IT is (as a certain Author defines it) a sacred Frenzy of the Soul, and a Divine Madness, elevating Men to the Pitch of Saints, and rendring them the Care of Benigner Dæmons: so far that they are every where safe, being under the Protection of GODS and Men; as the Poet familiarly expresses it, Quisquis Amore tenetur, eat tutúsq; sacèrq;——