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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 paralysis, elephantiasis, or so--
DAUP: O, but frigiditas is the fairer way, gentlemen.
OTT: You say troth, sir, and as it is in the canon, master doctor--
CUT: I conceive you, sir.
CLER: Before he speaks!
OTT: That a boy, or child, under years, is not fit for marriage, because he cannot reddere debitum. So your omnipotentes--
TRUE [ASIDE TO OTT.]: Your impotentes, you wh.o.r.eson lobster!
OTT: Your impotentes, I should say, are minime apti ad contrahenda matrimonium.
TRUE: Matrimonium! we shall have most unmatrimonial Latin with you: matrimonia, and be hang'd.
DAUP: You put them out, man.
CUT: But then there will arise a doubt, master parson, in our case, post matrimonium: that frigiditate praeditus--do you conceive me, sir?
OTT: Very well, sir.
CUT: Who cannot uti uxore pro uxore, may habere eam pro sorore.
OTT: Absurd, absurd, absurd, and merely apostatical!
CUT: You shall pardon me, master parson, I can prove it.
OTT: You can prove a will, master doctor, you can prove nothing else. Does not the verse of your own canon say, Haec socianda vetant connubia, facta retractant?
CUT: I grant you; but how do they retractare, master parson?
MOR: O, this was it I feared.
OTT: In aeternum, sir.
CUT: That's false in divinity, by your favour.
OTT: 'Tis false in humanity to say so. Is he not prorsus inutilis ad thorum? Can he praestare fidem datam? I would fain know.
CUT: Yes; how if he do convalere?
OTT: He cannot convalere, it is impossible.
TRUE: Nay, good sir, attend the learned men, they will think you neglect them else.
CUT: Or, if he do simulare himself frigidum, odio uxoris, or so?
OTT: I say, he is adulter manifestus then.
DAUP: They dispute it very learnedly, i'faith.
OTT: And prost.i.tutor uxoris; and this is positive.
MOR: Good sir, let me escape.
TRUE: You will not do me that wrong, sir?
OTT: And, therefore, if he be manifeste frigidus, sir--
CUT: Ay, if he be manifeste frigidus, I grant you--
OTT: Why, that was my conclusion.
CUT: And mine too.
TRUE: Nay, hear the conclusion, sir.
OTT: Then, frigiditatis causa--
