Note 357 — Terminal Essay. (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
See the Novelle of Bandello the Bishop (Tome I; Paris, Liseux, 1879, small in 18), where the dying fisherman replies to his confessor “Oh! Oh! your reverence, to amuse myself with boys was natural to me as for man to eat and drink; yet you asked me if I sinned against nature!” Amongst the wiser ancients sinning contra naturam was not marrying and begetting children.