ABSTRACT
But when we speak of Ages most fit for to undertake a marry’d state, we must shut out, as uncapable, Eunuchs, and others of both sexes, render’d unfit by accident, or that are born defective; neither is every Age, tho’ never so well equipt, fit to tast the pleasures of a Matrimonial State. Young People are too feeble, and the Old too languishing; Infancy and Puerility are too ignorant as to the productive part, and old Age, tho’ well acquainted with the manner, yet are destitute of the Matter which Nature requires for Procreation. 2
