Were the Puritans Puritanical? (Part 2)

"A leading Puritan preacher, in giving an exposition of Proverbs 5:18-19 (which compares a wife to 'the loving hind and pleasant roe'), claimed that the hind and roe were chosen because they are most enamoured of their mates 'and even mad again in their heat and desire for them'" (Ryken, Worldly Saints, p. 39).