This sleek and gentle pedler of indulgences rode side by side with a repulsive officer of the Church, with a fiery red face, of whom children were afraid, fond of garlic and onions and strong wine, and speaking only Latin law-terms when he was drunk, but withal a good fellow, abating his lewdness and drunkenness.

It is impossible for a person brought up in so great licentiousness and shamelessness to avoid defiling his entire life: and so from his private concerns he brought his lewdness and greed to bear upon public matters.

As troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent, and commit lewdness."

CHAPTER XIV SERMONS NEW AND OLD "The reign of Charles the Second seemed to be impregnated with a free and easy moral atmosphere that engendered lewdness in human product.

The poet has said: "Evil to him who has permitted lewdness Beneath his breast its foremost nail to delve!

Secretly, however, he carried on nocturnal revels throughout the length and breadth of the city, insulting the women, practicing lewdness on boys, stripping those whom he encountered, striking, wounding, murdering.

Will magistrates who punish lewdness, or parsons who preach against it, make any scruple of committing it?