Roger L'Estrange

“ Sensual Love knows neither Bars nor Bounds. We are all Naturally Impudent; only by Custom, and Fig-leaves, we have teen taught to Disguise the Matter, and Look Demurely; and that's it which we call Modesty. ”

“ When Our Corruptions, in fine, are Strong, and Our Underslandings Weak, we are apter to Hearken to the Motions of the Blood, and to the Vain Imaginations of a Deprav'd Affection, then to the Dry Doctrines and Precepts of Authority and Vertue, This Difficulty of keeping Young and Hot Blood in Order, does mightily Enforce the Necessity of an Early Care for the Training up of Children, and giving them a Tincture, before it be too Late, of those Docctrines and Principles, by which they are afterward to Govern the Whole Frame of their Lives. ”

“ Jupiter's forgetting Modesty in the Composition of Man, Intimates the Difficulty of Admitting it, till Flesh and Blood has done the Friendly Office towards the Peopling of the World; for there’s hardly any Place for Councel, till these Heats arc in some Meafure taken off; and it is no Wonder, that when Love comes to be without Reason, it should be without Modesty too ”