Diseases of the soul a discourse divine, moral, and physical. By Tho. AdamsDiseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams

Signs and Symptoms.

Signes and Symptomes.

The Signs are many. There is a beating pain about the first joint of the back, a little above the bastard ⟨p. 45⟩ribs, &c. with others, which modesty bids cover with the cloak of silence. The Lustful man is a monster; as one that useth, Humano capiti ceruicem jungere equinam.

THe Signes are many. There is a beating paine about the first ioynt of the backe, a little aboue the bastard ⟨p. 45⟩ribs, &c. with others, which modestie bids couer with the cloke of silence. The Lustfull man is a monster; as one that vseth, Humano capiti ceruicem iungere equinam.

He affects Popery for nothing else, but the patronage ¹of fornication, and frankness of Indulgence. He cites Harding frequently, that common Courtesans in hot countries, are a necessary evil: which he believes against Gods express prohibition, in a hotter climate then Italy. There ²shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel: then certainly no whore-master. He thinks it; if a sin, yet peccadillo, a little sin; and that the venereal faults are venial, at least venal. Thus he would be a Bawd to the sin, if not to the sinners. He is careless of his own name, of his own soul: injurious to his own minion, whom he corrupts: to his bastard, whom he brings up like himself. He increaseth mankind, not for love to the end, but to the means. His soul is wrapped in the truss of his senses; and a whore is the Communis terminus, where they all meet. He hath no command over his own affections, though over countries; as our modern Epigrammatist of Hercules.