Note 77 — EPILOGUE TO THE PILGRIM.
Reading edition
The rigour of the republicans against female frailty, was of a piece with their general hypocrisy. It was, however, carried much farther in Scotland, where open adultery was declared by statute a capital crime. That act is still unrepealed, and may remind the reader of a verse I have somewhere read:
Beware, ye knights on British ground, Beware, ye dames so free; Full many a neck so straight and round On gallows stretched might be.