Queer Faith by Sanchez Melissa E.;

Author:Sanchez, Melissa E.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT004020 Literary Criticism / American / General
Publisher: New York University Press

It is most sure that some ev’n of those who are not plainly defective in body, are yet destitute of all other mariageable gifts; and consequently have not the calling to marry; unlesse nothing be requisite thereto but a meer instrumentall body . . . it is as sure that many such not of their own desire, but by the perswasion of friends, or not knowing themselves do often enter into wedlock; where finding the difference at length between the duties of a maried life, and the gifts of a single life; what unfitnes of mind, what wearisomnes, what scruples and doubts to an incredible offence and displeasure are like to follow between, may be soon imagin’d: whom thus to shut up and immure together, the one with a mischosen mate, the other in a mistak’n calling, is not a course that Christian wisdome and tendernes ought to use. As for the custom that some parents and guardians have of forcing mariages, it will be better to say nothing of such a savage inhumanitie, but only this, that the Law which gives not all freedome of divorce to any creature endu’d with reason so assassinated, is next in crueltie. (DDD 2:274–275)

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