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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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Which please them better than their own.

For so they come to meet with bedfellows, nor doth it displease the Parents, if young men of as good quality as themselves become acquainted with their daughters, but rather like well of it; knowing that their daughters by this means can command the young men to help and assist them in any work or business that they may have occasion to use them in.

And they look upon it so far distant from a disgrace, that they will among their consorts brag of it, that they have the young men thus at their command.
[Nothing so common as Whoredom.] So that youth are bred up to Whoredom.

Indeed here are no Publick Whores allowed by Authority.

In the City some that have followed that Trade, have oftentimes by the King's order been severely punished by Whipping, and having their Ears and Hair cut off.


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