13 Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” in Seventeenth Century American Poetry, ed. Harrison T. Meserole (1968, rpt. New York, 1972), 32.

1 Edmund Morgan, “The Puritans and Sex,” NEQ 15 (1942), 591-607; counter-arguments appear in M. Zuckerman, “Pilgrims in the Wilderness: Community, Modernity and the Maypole at Merry Mount,” NEQ 50 (1977), 265; Philip J. Greven, The Protestant Temperament (New York, 1977).

2 Morgan, “Puritans and Sex,” 591; Samuel Willard, A Compleat Body of Divinity (Boston, 1726), 125, 608-13; John Cotton, A Meet Help (Boston, 1699), 14-15.