While the occasional wry witticism seeps through, overall Shipler is painfully conscientious about trying to offer both sides of any debate.

[…] “while they are still boys [i.e., pubescent or pre-adult], they are fond of men, and enjoy lying down together with them and twining their limbs about them, . . . but when they become men they are lovers of boys. . . . Such a man is a paederast and philerast [i.e., fond of or responsive to adult male lovers]” at different stages of his life […]

Normally only one batsman is padded up and Dean Jones was listed to bat next.

[S]uch ſmiling rogues as theſe, / Like Rats oft bite the holy cords a twaine, / Which are t' intrince, t' vnlooſe: […]