But if any imagine that this particular Licence would be a general Encouragement to the whole _Nation_, they are certainly mistaken. For, as to the Men, they are already as bad as they can be; if any Thing cures them, it must be _Satiety_: Let them have full and free Leave to take a Surfeit of unlawful Love, and they will soon learn to prefer the Chaste Embraces of Innocence before the bought Smile of Harlots loveless, joyless, unindear’d casual Fruition. It is a right Observation, that Restraint does but whet a Man’s Passions instead of curing them. _Exuperat magis, ægrescitque medendo._ Æn. 12. And a late ingenious _Author_, who study’d Mankind, speaking on this Subject, has these Words: _To put down_ Publick Stews, _is not only to disperse Fornication into all Parts, but, by the Difficulty, to excite wild and wanton People to this Vice._ It was observ’d at _Rome_, that in the full Liberty of Divorces, there was not a single Instance of one in fifty Years: And that _Cato_ long’d for his Wife again as soon as she was in another’s Possession. The Master of Love says positively, _Quod licet ingratum est, quod non licet acrius urit_. And _Martial_ speaking to a married Rake, _B_. 3. _Ep_. 68. says, _Cur aliena placet tibi, quæ tua non placet uxor? Nunquid Securus non potes arrigere?_ I pr’ythee tell me why a Wife Thy am’rous Fancy never warms? What! without Danger o’thy Life, Cannot thy Cod-pice stand to Arms? And again, _B_. 1. _Ep_. 74. _Nullus in urbe fuit tota, qui tangere vellet Uxorem gratis, Cæciliane, tuam Dum licuit: sed nunc, positis custodibus, ingens Turba fututorum est. Ingeniosus Homo es._ There’s no Man, _Cæcil_, in the Town, Would, _gratis_, have enjoy’d thy Spouse; But how thou art so jealous grown, Lord! what a Croud about the House! You’ve lock’d her up, t’increase her Value; In short, you are a cunning Fellow. The _Public Stews_ will not encourage Men to be lewd, but they will encourage them to exercise their Lewdness in a proper Place, without disturbing the Peace of the _Society_, and with as little Detriment to themselves as possible. And, as to the Women, there’s not the least Shadow of Encouragement: For no modest Woman ever lost her Maiden-head with the dismal Prospect of becoming a _Public Courtezan_: And if a Woman is not modest, the licensing of the _Public Stews_ is no more an Encouragement for her to practise, than the allowing a certain Number of Hackney-Coaches every _Sunday_ is an Encouragement for the rest to ply; when the very Licence, to some, expresly implies a Prohibition of the rest.