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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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But in private few or none can exempt themselves.

And for the matter of being with Child, which many of them do not desire, they very exquisitely can prevent the same.
[They are guilty of the thing, but love not the name.] Indeed the Publick Trade would be bad, and hardly maintain them that exercised it, the private one being so great.

And tho I think they be all Whores, yet they abhor the Name of Vesou, which is Whore.

Neither do they in their anger reproach one another with it, unless they should lay with a Man of an inferior quality to themselves, And the Woman reckons her self as much obliged to the Man for his Company, as he does to her for hers.

In these affairs the Women are very expert (it being their continual practice) to keep their design from the Husbands knowledge: tho by his own Experience he cannot be ignorant of Womens devices.


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