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The blessings of polygamy displayed in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, A treatise on female ruin... / By Richard Hill, esq.

Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet

Date:: 1781

Credit: The blessings of polygamy displayed in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, A treatise on female ruin... / By Richard Hill, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$good reafoning, as if I were to fay, that if that parliament had been abfurd enough to pafs a law that every prieft fhould have his nofe cut off, therefore another act ought now to pafs, for any layman to have two or more nofes{D]. Or becaufe the French capuchin friar you mention told you, it was — contrary to the rules of his order ever to wear a pair-of fhoes at all; therefore it was — now proper and expedient fora man to wear two or three pair at once. But leaving the fooleries and extravagan- cies of popery to thofe who choofe to be [D] So far is the credulity of popery frony fuppofing that a prieft may not well enough exift without a nofe, — that it can even believe aprieft may live without a head. —Whoever has vifited the convent of St. Dennis near _ Paris, has feen the image of that Saint in filver with his head. in his own hands; and has been told with Fah very grave face, by the ecclefiaftic who fhews the trea- fares of the church, that St. Dennis (from whom the convent takes its name) having fuffered decapitation for the fake of réligion, afterwards took up his head in . his hands, and carried it from Paris to the place where — the monaftery now ‘fands, which if I remember right; is-a diftance of about fix miles. 4 amufed$