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ords, good doctor, to the question briefly. CUT: I answer then, the canon-law affords divorce but in a few cases; and the principal is in the common case, the adulterous case: But there are duodecim impedimenta, twelve impediments, as we call them, all which do not dirimere contractum, but irritum reddere matrimonium, as we say in the canon-law, not take away the bond, but cause a nullity therein. MOR: I understood you before: good sir, avoid your impertinency of translation. OTT: He cannot open this too much, sir, by your favour. MOR: Yet more! TRUE: O, you must give the learned men leave, sir.--To your impediments, master Doctor. CUT: The first is impedimentum erroris. OTT: Of which there are several species. CUT: Ay, as error personae. OTT: If you contract yourself to one person, thinking her another. CUT: Then, error fortunae. OTT: If she be a begger, and you thought her rich. CUT: Then, error qualitatis. OTT: If she prove stubborn or head-strong, that you thought obedient. MOR: How! is that, sir, a lawful impediment? One at once, I pray you gentlemen. OTT: Ay, ante copulam, but not post copulam, sir. CUT: Master Parson says right. Nec post nuptiarum benedictionem. It doth indeed but irrita reddere sponsalia, annul the contract: after marriage it is of no obstancy. TRUE: Alas, sir, what a hope are we fallen from by this time! CUT: The next is conditio: if you thought her free born, and she prove a bond-woman, there is impediment of estate and condition. OTT: Ay, but, master doctor, those servitudes are sublatae now, among us Christians. CUT: By your favour, master parson-- OTT: You shall give me leave, master doctor. MOR: Nay, gentlemen, quarrel not in that question; it concerns not my case: pass to the third. CUT: Well then, the third is votum: if either party have made a vow of chastity. But that practice, as master parson said of the other, is taken away among us, thanks be to discipline. The fourth is cognatio: if the persons be of kin within the degrees. OTT: Ay: do you know what the degrees are, sir? MOR: No, nor I care not, sir: they offer me no comfort in the question, I am sure. CUT: But there is a branch of this impediment may, which is cognatio spiritualis: if you were her godfather, sir, then the marriage is
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