_Diogenes_, the _Cynic_, us’d to say, that Women ought to be in common, and that Marriage was nothing but a Man’s getting a Woman in the Mind to be lain with: He often us’d Manual Venery in the public Market-place, with this Saying. _Oh! that I could assuage my Hunger thus with rubbing of my Stomach!_ But what Wonder if the old _Academics_, the _Cyrenaics_, and _Peripatetics_, were so lewdly wanton, when the very _Stoics_, who prided themselves in the Conquest of all their other Passions, were forc’d to submit to this? _Zeno_, indeed, the Founder of that Sect, was remarkable for his Modesty, because he rarely made Use of Boys, and took but once an ordinary Maid-Servant to Bed, that he might not be thought to hate the Sex; yet, in his _Commonwealth_, he was for a Community of Women; and writ a Treatise, wherein he regulated the Motions of getting a Maidenhead, and philosophically prov’d Action and Reaction to be equal. _Chrysippus_ and _Apollodorus_ agree with _Zeno_ in a Community of Women, and say, that a wise Man may be in Love with handsome Boys. _Erillus_, a Scholar of _Zeno_’s, was a notorious Debauchee. I need not mention the _Epicureans_ who were remarkable for their Obscenity. _Epicurus_ used to make a Pander of his own Brother; and his Scholar, the Great _Metrodorus_, visited all the noted Courtezans in _Athens_, and publicly kept the famous _Leontium_, his Master’s _Quondam_ Mistress. Yet, if you will believe _Laertius_, he was every Way a good Man. But what shall we say of our Favourite _Seneca_, who, with all his _Morals_, could never acquire the Reputation of _Chastity_? He was indeed somewhat Nice in his Amours, like the Famous _Flora_, who was never enjoy’d by any Thing less than a Dictator or a Consul; for he scorn’d to intrigue with any Thing less than the Empress. Now, if those Reverend School-Masters of Antiquity, were so loose in their Seminals, shall we, of this Age, set up for Chastity? Have our _Oxford Students_ more Command of their Passions than the _Stoics_? Are our Young _Templars_ less Amorous than _Plato_? Or, is an _Officer_ of the Army less Ticklish in the Shoulder than _Socrates_? But I need not waste any Rhetoric upon so evident a Truth; for plain and clear Propositions, like Windows painted, are only the more Obscure the more they are adorn’d.