"Always Catch Me the Same Way," and "The Complacent Spouse"
ALWAYS CATCH ME THE SAME WAY
There are few beings in the world as libertine as the Cardinal of ... whose name you will allow me to conceal, while he still lives, healthy and vigorous. His Eminence has made arrangements in Rome with one of those women whose unofficial trade is to supply the debauched with the necessities to feed their passions: every morning she brings him a new, comely wench to defile; but, like many of his fellow countrymen, he indulges only in bumstuffery; all the better that the prostitute may ply her trade, still daisy-fresh as as a vestal virgin, with a new, more decent, yet still thoroughly debauched old rake hell.
