The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep.

Without this she would have had to be present for remancipation to take place and a malicious adulteress could thus have exposed an already injured husband to all the rigours of the statute.

Who both by his calfe, & his lambe wil be known, may well kill a neate and a shepe of his owne. And he that wil reare up a pyg in his house, hath cheaper his bacon, and sweter his souse.

And I think this is CENTRAL to AFCdom getting perpetuated in our society. Chicks are unaware of what they want, announcing all the time that they want things that are different from what they actually respond to.