Becauſe _Fortune_ herſelfe is a _Whore_, but ſuch are not moſt indulgent to their _iſſue_; the old naturall reaſon (but thoſe meetings in _ſtolne love_ are moſt _vehement_, and ſo contribute more _ſpirit_ then the _eaſie_ and _lawfull_) might governe me, but that now I ſee _Miſtreſſes_ are become _domeſtike_ and _inordinary_, and they and wives _waite_ but by _turnes_, and _agree_ aſwell as they had _lived_ in the _Arke_. The old Morall reaſon (that _Baſtards_ inherit _wickedneſſe_ from their _Parents_, and ſo are in a better way to _preferment_ by having a _ſtocke_ before-hand, then thoſe that build all their _fortune_ upon the _poore_ and _weake_ ſtocke of _Originall ſinne_) might prevaile with me, but that ſince wee are fallen into ſuch times, as now the _world_ might _ſpare_ the _Divell_, because _ſhe_ could be bad enough without _him_. I ſee men _ſcorne_ to be _wicked_ by _example_, or to bee _beholding_ to others for their _damnation_. It ſeems reaſonable, that ſince _Lawes_ rob them of _ſucceſſion_ in _civill benefits_, they ſhould have ſomething elſe _equivalent_. As _Nature_ (which is _Lawes patterne_) having denyed Women _Conſtancy_ to _one_, hath provided them with _cunning_ to allure _many_; and ſo _Baſtards_ _de jure_ ſhould have better _wits_ and _experience_. But beſides that by _experience_ wee ſee many _fooles_ amongſt them, wee ſhould take from them one of their chiefeſt helpes to _preferment_, and we ſhould deny them to be _fools_, and (that which is onely left) that _Women_ chuſe _worthier_ men then their _husbands_, is falſe _de facto_; either then it muſt bee that the _Church_ having removed them from all place in the _publike Service_ of _God_, they have better meanes then others to be _wicked_, and ſo _fortunate_: Or elſe becauſe the two _greateſt powers_ in this _world_, the _Divell_ and _Princes_ concurre to their _greatneſſe_; the one giving _baſtardy_, the other _legitimation_: As _nature_ frames and conſerves great _bodies_ of _contraries_. Or the cauſe is, becauſe they abound moſt at _Court_, which is the _forge_ where _fortunes_ are made, or at leaſt the _ſhop_ where they be _ſold_. [Decoration] 2. _Why Puritanes make long Sermons?_