umano furore statuitur, ut dispositio divina violetur_, it is
abominable, impious, adulterous, and sacrilegious, what men make and ordain
after their own furies to cross God's laws. [5911]Georgius Wicelius, one of
their own arch divines (_Inspect. eccles. pag. 18_) exclaims against it,
and all such rash monastical vows, and would have such persons seriously to
consider what they do, whom they admit, _ne in posterum querantur de
inanibus stupris_, lest they repent it at last. For either, as he follows
it, [5912]you must allow them concubines, or suffer them to marry, for
scarce shall you find three priests of three thousand, _qui per aetatem non
ament_, that are not troubled with burning lust. Wherefore I conclude it is
an unnatural and impious thing to bar men of this Christian liberty, too
severe and inhuman an edict.

[5913] _The silly wren, the titmouse also,
The little redbreast have their election,
They fly I saw and together gone,
Whereas hem list, about environ
As they of kinde have inclination,
And as nature impress and guide,
Of everything list to provide.

But man alone, alas the hard stond,
Full cruelly by kinds ordinance
Constrained is, and by statutes bound,
And debarred from all such pleasance:
What meaneth this, what is this pretence
Of laws, I wis, against all right of kinde
Without a cause, so narrow men to binde?_

Many laymen repine still at priests' marriages above the rest, and not at
clergymen only, but of all the meaner sort and condition, they would have
none marry but such as are rich and able to maintain wives, because their
parish belike shall be pestered with orphans, and the world full of
beggars: but [5914]these are hard-hearted, unnatural, monsters of men,
shallow politicians, they do not [5915]consider that a great part of the
world is not yet inhabited as it ought, how many colonies into America,
Terra Australis incognita, Africa, may be sent? Let them consult with Sir
William Alexander's Book of Colonies, Orpheus Junior's Golden Fleece,
Captain Whitburne, Mr. Hagthorpe, &c. and they shall surely be otherwise
informed. Those politic Romans were of another mind, they thought their
city and country could never be too populous. [5916]Adrian the emperor said
he had rather have men than money, _malle se hominum adjectione ampliare
imperium, quam pecunia_. Augustus Caesar made an oratio