incestuous.
OTT: That comment is absurd and superstitious, master doctor: I
cannot endure it. Are we not all brothers and sisters, and as much
akin in that, as godfathers and god-daughters?
MOR: O me! to end the controversy, I never was a godfather, I
never was a godfather in my life, sir. Pass to the next.
CUT: The fifth is crimen adulterii; the known case. The sixth,
cultus disparitas, difference of religion: have you ever examined
her, what religion she is of?
MOR: No, I would rather she were of none, than be put to the
trouble of it!
OTT: You may have it done for you, sir.
MOR: By no means, good sir; on to the rest: shall you ever come
to an end, think you?
TRUE: Yes, he has done half, sir. On, to the rest.--Be patient,
and expect, sir.
CUT: The seventh is, vis: if it were upon compulsion or force.
MOR: O no, it was too voluntary, mine; too voluntary.
CUT: The eight is, ordo; if ever she have taken holy orders.
OTT: That's supersitious too.
MOR: No matter, master parson: Would she would go into a nunnery
yet.
CUT: The ninth is, ligamen; if you were bound, sir, to any other
before.
MOR: I thrust myself too soon into these fetters.
CUT: The tenth is, publica honestas: which is inchoata quaedam
affinitas.
OTT: Ay, or affinitas orta ex sponsalibus; and is but leve
impedimentum.
MOR: I feel no air of comfort blowing to me, in all this.
CUT: The eleventh is, affinitas ex fornicatione.
OTT: Which is no less vera affinitas, than the other, master
doctor.
CUT: True, quae oritur ex legitimo matrimonio.
OTT: You say right, venerable doctor: and, nascitur ex eo, quod
per conjugium duae personae efficiuntur una caro--
MOR: Hey-day, now they begin!
CUT: I conceive you, master parson: ita per fornicationem aeque
est verus pater, qui sic generat--
OTT: Et vere filius qui sic generatur--
MOR: What's all this to me?
CLER: Now it grows warm.
CUT: The twelfth, and last is, si forte coire nequibis.
OTT: Ay, that is impedimentum gravissimum: it doth utterly annul,
and annihilate, that. If you have manifestam frigiditatem, you
are well, sir.
TRUE: Why, there is comfort come at length, sir. Confess yourself
but a man unable, and she will sue to be divorced first.
OTT: Ay, or if there be morbus perpetuus, et insanabilis; as
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