Storia do Mogor 74.4

74.4

The same thing is done with Mahomedan and Christian women, who wear drawers. It is to this intent that they keep a shirt and a pair of drawers on a rope, in order to cover the equivocal proposals they make to women. It often happens that the woman who was scandalized the first time falls a second time into the trap, either through eagerness to get rid of her trouble, or because of the devotee women. These go to the house of any woman who had left without consenting to the perverted desires of the holy man. Opening a conversation, they dilate on the holiness of their master, and lead her to expect all sorts of benefits to be obtained by going to the holy man. I cannot write the filthiness of such men, and all I shall say will be very little, not to fall into the error spoken of by St. Paul : Corrumpunt bonos mores eloquia prava. Still, the insolence and outrages of these deceivers are sufficiently exposed. There are numbers of them, also of women, who, under the name of sanctity, practise similar impostures. All the same, the populace in the Mogul realm, and also the nobles, retain great esteem for these people, sending them valuable presents ; even gardeners carry to them the best of their fruit and vegetables, and goat-herds their kids and milk. Thus do these villains lead a more luxurious life than any grandee, being at the same time obeyed by princes and governors.