and, when maids, were fantastically shy; permit freedoms in public from their uxorious husbands, which have shown, that both of them have forgotten what belongs either to prudence or decency?

God was bound to support his own cause: he might for a time permit rebels and traitors to prosper, but he would ultimately humble them before the throne of their sovereign.

"But why, priest, dost thou permit thy fevered guilty imagination to wander thus?

Either permit treatment, or consider yourself under arrest.