these are too lascivious kisses, [5116]_Implicuitque
suos circum meet colla lacertos_, &c. too continuate and too violent,
[5117]_Brachia non hederae, non vincunt oscula conchae_; they cling like
ivy, close as an oyster, bill as doves, meretricious kisses, biting of
lips, _cum additamento: Tam impresso ore_ (saith [5118]Lucian) _ut vix
labia detrahant, inter deosculandum mordicantes, tum et os aperientes
quoque et mammas attrectantes_, &c. such kisses as she gave to Gyton,
_innumera oscula dedit non repugnanti puero, cervicem invadens_,
innumerable kisses, &c. More than kisses, or too homely kisses: as those
that [5119]he spake of, _Accepturus ab ipsa venere 7, suavia_, &c. with
such other obscenities that vain lovers use, which are abominable and
pernicious. If, as Peter de Ledesmo _cas. cons._ holds, every kiss a man
gives his wife after marriage, be _mortale peccatum_, a mortal sin, or that
of [5120]Hierome, _Adulter est quisquis in uxorem suam ardentior est
amator_; or that of Thomas Secund. _quaest. 154. artic. 4._ _contactus et
osculum sit mortale peccatum_, or that of Durand. _Rational. lib. 1. cap.
10._ _abstinere debent conjuges a complexu, toto tempore quo solennitas
nuptiarum interdicitur_, what shall become of all such [5121]immodest
kisses and obscene actions, the forerunners of brutish lust, if not lust
itself! What shall become of them that often abuse their own wives? But
what have I to do with this?

That which I aim at, is to show you the progress of this burning lust; to
epitomise therefore all this which I have hitherto said, with a familiar
example out of that elegant Musaeus, observe but with me those amorous
proceedings of Leander and Hero: they began first to look one on another
with a lascivious look,

"Oblique intuens inde nutibus,--
Nutibus mutuis inducens in errorem mentem puellae.
Et illa e contra nutibus mutuis juvenis
Leandri quod amorem non renuit, &c. Inde
Adibat in tenebris tacite quidem stringens
Roseos puellae digitos, ex imo suspirabat
Vehementer------Inde
Virginis autem bene olens collum osculatus.
Tale verbum ait amoris ictus stimulo,
Preces audi et amoris miserere mei, &c.
Sic fatus recusantis persuasit mentem puellae."

"With becks and nods he first began
To try the wench's mind.
With becks and nods and smiles again
An answer he did find."

"An