ure, _Ha Nugae seria ducunt in Mala_; and that 'tis at
least an _Edg-tool_ which ought not to be plaid with.

I could never well comprehend the true reason, why it should be such a
disgrace to be a _Cuckold_, or why one Person should suffer for
another's fault, how nearly soever related to him: But I can very easily
apprehend the Injury of it, which is, that one Man should be out upon
fathering another Man's Children, or at the best should be in danger of
it; and this seems to be meant by the word, which at first was
intended, that a Man was _Cuckoo'd_, that is, dealt with as _Cuckoos_
are said to do with other Birds, by laying their Eggs in their Nests,
and thereby making them hatch and bring up young Ones that are none of
their own, (for this is the best Etymology I can find out for a word so
commonly used). Now, the same Injury may be as sensible in what concerns
the Children of the Brain (as Books have been call'd) which may be as
lawful and as natural Issues, and some Parents may be as fond of them,
and as much concerned about them. And tho it pass for no Crime for
People to expose their Children when they have no mind to own them, or
think they are not able to maintain them, and they may be content any
body else should father them that will; yet this is an Office no body
would be forc'd upon undertaking, how little soever it may cost them,
and how innocently soever it may have been intended.

I could not forbear to make this Reflection upon this Subject, if it
were for nothing else but to make good my Profession in the Title-page,
of being _A Lover of Truth_.

* * * * *

_FINIS._

Transcriber's notes

Page 11
"forgets himself again, and says." Possible error for
"forgets himself again, and says,". No change made.

Page 20
"(in _Memoirs p._)" page number is missing in the original.

Page 25
"Never to enter again into Publick Employments"
changed from "Pulick".

Page 29
"whenever they read them," comma added.

Page 36
"Hans-en Kelder" is unclear in the original image.
The phrase means "Jack in the Box" or "Child in the womb"
(Nathan Bailey's Canting Dictionary, 1736).

Page 38
"help it off" is unclear in the original image.

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