And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place].
Ver. 22. There was no harlot in this place.] Few places can say so. Every house in Egypt had a dead corpse in it; and too many houses here have such, as, "living in pleasure, are dead while they live." 1Ti 5:6 a Of this sort was that Arlet, a skinner's daughter in Normandy, whose nimbleness in her dance made Duke Robert enamoured, &c. On her he begat our William the Conqueror. b In spite to whom, and disgrace to his mother, the English called all whores, harlets. But who can read without detestation, that in Rome a Jewess may not be admitted into the stews, unless she will be first baptized? as Espencaeus, an honest Papist, complains. c
a Sane, hercle, homo voluptati obsequens fuit dum vixit. - Terent.
b Heyl., Geog., p. 96.
c Espencae., De Continentia, lib. iii. cap. 4.