Most of the nobility, courtiers, rich people, the young, and those called fine minds, being constantly engaged in amusements and studying nothing but the art of pleasure through whatever flatters concupisc::ence and the senses, gradually ac::quire such a delicacy in these matters, or such a softness, that they can very often be said to be of an effeminate slate of mind rather than fine minds, as they pretend to be.