humour in their aliment as also strong mutations of the air extraordinary heat or cold c. Of the good and of the bad that comes by Venery AS there is the heighest pleasure in Venus so there is no less of profit when it is injoyed lawfully in wedlock otherwise I renounce my opinion and esteem those for mad men that will prefer momentany delights before those that are eternal That 's an unworthy commodity that cannot be bought nor obtained but by the death and destruction of the merchant But to our discourse in hand Venus very much profits those that are Phlegmatick and troubled with rheumes its good likewise against the palsie nay it is called a petit palsie because its action resembles it so much Hence Faustus de Coitu Turpis est morbi species horrenda caduci But chiefly its profitable to melancholick men many times by the retention of Virgins and Widows seed they become excessively melancholy and in a small time after run stark mad There is no other cure for them but copulation Congression likewise is an excellent remedy to bridle cholerick mens wrath Wherefore the Poets feigned that Venus the Goddess of Love and venereal sports conquered Mars the God of war How many valiant men have proved arrant cowards at the first shot from a beauteous eye paying tribute unto it forgetting both their honour and safety Venus again is very good for hot and moist constitutions nay it is altogether necessary For this complexion aboundeth much with bloud and seed whereby the spermatical vessels are filled and opprest so that if they are not disburdened they are so over-much extended that thereby proceeds from it a gonorrhoea or if the seed be a long while detained the seminal passages will be obstructed hence ariseth putrefaction seminal feavours and there often wormes breed So saith Mercurialis Copulation giveth men a soft skin it cureth the Iskurie or difficult making water But you must understand that these benefits come not but by a moderate use thereof Now let us proceed to the ills that Venus brings with it which are so many that I stand in need of more then one tongue to relate them Hear how Aristotle exhorts Alexander saying O Clement Emperour incline thy self not too much to Venus because its a thing most proper to brutes what then is thy glory if thou makest thine actions equal with beasts I believe he followed his counsel well for after he had conquered Darius he behaved himself so well to his captivated wives and daughters as became so vertuous and magnanimous a Conquerer For saith he after he had viewed them it s not just that he that hath conquered so many kingdomes should at last be conquered himself by a silly woman Believe me Venus is the destruction of the body the shortning of life the corruption of vertues the transgression of the law of God and the mother of effeminacy Here what the Poet saith of this bestial delight O multum damnosa viris damnosa voluptas O nimium damnosa viris damnosa libido Damnosi visus damnosaque basia torpor Damnosus damnosus amor damnosaque scorta O multum damnosa viris damnosa voluptas To conclude it depraves the mind it weakens the body it dries up the natural moisture and therefore hastens death Crebra Venus nervos animum vim lumina corpus Debilitat mollit surripit orbat edit Venus mans body his strength mind and eyes Makes weak and soft corrupts and putrifies Lastly Venus is the original of all diseases and all mischiefs that happen in the world Let us then with all care and diligence shun these damnable execrable and short fading pleasures since they seldome have any other end then grief vexation ignominy shame and sudden destruction and after this life is ended eternall damnation Why are young men the more delighted in Venery by how much the more they use it IF we dare credit Hippocrates he is ready to satisfie us in this question For saith he often copulation inlarges the veines and dilates very much the seedy vessels by reason of which there is a larger and freer passage and receptacle for a greater quantity of seed and spirits whereby venereal delight and pleasure is prolonged and increased in the act At first most youths have these passages very streight and narrow so as the seed can hardly be evacuated but by use they become enlarged immediately after which nature is so provident as to fill these domicils of lust thus inabled with a great quantity of bloud spirits and heat There being then a sufficient plenty of these three they cannot otherwise chuse but cause a great inclination to lust with a pruriting and itching quality and lastly administer the greatest of pleasures in the act This is natures property that where she is sent for thither she flies with all expedition to be an assistant Where grief or pleasure is there she takes up her resistance to aggravate the one or augment the other Thus she deals with youth when the receptacles of bloud and spirits are amplified thither she immediately sends great quantity of them to fill those vessels though for it she leaves destitute the other parts And so by this means copulation very much weakens the whole structure of the body Hence it proceeds that that man is never fleshy or fat that begins too soon to be petulant and act wantonly But why should not middle-aged men partake of the same priviledge that young men do in the excess of venereal delight The reason may be that though they have their seminal vessels extended to the same nay greater measure yet they have not the same plenty of seed and alimentary humour Hence it falls out that as they cannot copulate often so is their desire and appetite that way deficient It s no wonder then if women are so politick and cunning in preferring youth before any other age to administer to them venereal cordials and electuaries Add to this if the seminal conduits of young men are obstructed their seed becomes like a torrent the more fervent and impetuous by the obstacle and so being loosened flows with greater force and quantity and consequently affords a more intense sense of pleasure Therefore Plato forbad not onely any thing that might inflame youthful natures but in especial manner wine for by drinking it saith he they add fire to fire Thus Ovid expresseth himself in his Art of Loving concerning a woman Turpe jacens mulier multo madefacta Lyaeo Digna est concubitus quoslibet illa pati O hase a woman sop'd and steep'd in wine In lust her armes is willing to intwine The INDEX of the several subjects contained in this Book Concerning the name of Venus pag. 1. What is copulation p. 3. What is venereal Love p. 4. Through what part is love at first received in p. 5. Who are they which are most apt to be in love p. 6. Concerning those things that increase love p. 9. Whether love may be cured by medicaments p. 10. Concerning love-potions or Philters p. 11. Whether females may change their sex p. 12. Which is most lustful a man or a beast p. 13. Which of the two is most lustful a man or a woman p. 15. Which is most lustful a woman or a maid p. 17. The signs and marks of lustfulness from a mans temperament age disposition of body and his Countrey p. 18 19 20 21. The signs of lustfulness from the stature colour conformation of the parts beauty strength and season of the year p. 21 22 23. The signs of lustfulness from diseases p. 23 24 25. Concerning Satyriasis p. 25. Physiognomical signs of lust p. 26 27 28 29 30. Examples of such men and women that have been very lustful and lecherous p. 30 31 32 33 34. At what age is a wife to be chosen that she may be fit for generation p. 35 36. Concerning a mans Genitals and of their apt conformation p. 37. From whence proceeds the erection of the yard p. 39. Whether a too long or a too short Yard be obnoxious to generation p. 40. How to inlarge the pudenda in case it be neither long nor thick enough to a due proportion p. 41. How to shorten the yard being too long p. 42. Of venereal impotency p. 43. Concerning some men that have had wonderful great Genitals p. 44. Some questions concerning the Pudenda p. 45. Concerning the excellency vertue and temper of the stones p. 46. What may be the reason that though a man loveth a woman very well yet after the injoyment of her his love grows cold p. 48. Concerning castrating Men and Women p. 50. A particular relation of such things as will increase seed and lust p. 61. A brief description of a Womans Genitalls p. 53. Concerning the Clytoris p. 55. How to contract the Vulva being too large and wide ibid. What is that which is infringed at the first venereal act as also some signs of Virginity p. 57. Whether there be any Signs of corrupted virginity p. 59. Concerning night-pollutions p. 61. He that intends copulation ought to be free from turbulent passions of the mind and vain phantasmes p. 62. Whether to copulate backwards after the manner of beasts is best p. 64. Concerning pendulous venery as also many other fantastical venereal postures p. 65. Whether there are Pigmies and how they are generated p. 66. Whether there were and are Giants and whence have they their original p. 67. Of the good and of the bad that comes by venery p. 68. FINIS
it self within any longer issued out This Clytoris lies latent within a womans pudenda which answers to a mans virile this if it chance to grow over-much may stand in stead of a mans members yet without effusion of seed Wherefore heretofore there hath been laws enacted against feminine congression being it is a thing that happens too too common and frequent Which is most lustfull a man or a beast MAny beasts and creatures are so intent on their lust as some become mad others have died in the action Asses and Stags by reason of their raging lust run horn-mad Vipers eat the head of the female in the act All which demonstrate plainly the greatness of the lust of beasts And the truth of it is they have a better plea for it in many respects then men There were enough if they had nothing more on their sides then that delight is most proper to them but joy to man and that which beasts do by sense man should abstain from by his reason Yet for all that man is so vaine as to take lust for his leader to conduct him to bawdy-houses to commit adulteries nay even incests which to his shame some beasts abhor Lust makes oblivion beateth reason back Forgetteth shames pure blush and horours wrack Besides it is very unusual and seldome seen or heard of that beasts have desired copulation with man-kind whereas O wickedness many men have been convicted and condemned for buggery Histories make mention of those that have had congression with a Goat and the birth proved as monstrous as the act was unnatural and abominable Wherefore we may peremptorily conclude a man to be more lustful extensively beasts intensively Men as they respect no time beasts as they are guided by sense alone Furthermore he may not onely be accused for unseasonable and immoderate use of Venus but also for the illegality of it If he is truly convicted of lust he may also be condemned for vice for lust is defined to be a lascivious petulancy or a concupiscence of proving unlawful and sinful pleasures The two hand-maids of it are fornication and adultery accompanied with scortation incest and sodomy Of this sin were most of the Roman Emperours guilty in polluting and maculating their resplendent power and Majesty with filthy luxuries and effeminacy of the manner and excess of which no heart can conceive or fancy apprehend They seldome brought home victory from any nation but they did likewise their vices As it is apparent from their learning from the Greeks not onely Graecari that is to drink hard but also Moechari that is to stuprate and be lascivious But to conclude let your Wantons seriously consider what this lustful pleasure is and in the end they shall find it a delight bought with pain and hatched with unquietness alwayes accompanied and finished with sorrow by continuance it grows to impudence and infamy continually waits at its heels nay oftentimes sudden death which you shall find true laying aside whole volumes of tragical histories of this nature if you inquire after the monethly Sessions held at Newgate where those that would pass for maids rather then come to any disgrace have inhumanely destroyed that which was the issue of their stolen delights and so have for the fact meritoriously suffered death Wherefore those that are libidinously addicted let them be forewarned with this distical caveat Quid facies facies Veneris cùm veneris ante Non sedeas sed eas ne pere as per eas What wilt thou do when thou before The face of thy fair Paramore Appear'st stay not but disappear Lest her inticements cost thee dear Which of the two is most lustfull a Man or a Woman THe Poets of old make us believe that Tiresias was blinded by Juno for his just judgment For on a time Jupiter meeting with him asked him a merry question viz. whether a man or a woman was most lascivious and takes most pleasure in venereal copulation to which he answered positively the woman did Though this seem a fabulous fiction yet I will assure you the moral of it is all truth Caelius Rodiginus thinks and that upon good grounds that a woman is ten times more inclined to and delighted in copulation then a man Ovid in his Art of Love insinuates as much when he sings Stolen pleasure which to men is never hateful To women seeming shie is ever grateful The difference is a maid her love oft covers Men are more impudent and publick lovers But especially if she conceives for then the injected seed moves the nerves and from thence the ardor of confrication ariseth A Woman swelling with lust is not easily satisfied for the tasting of those sweets makes her the more desirous of them Solomon saith there are four things never satisfied the grave the womb the earth and the fire Messalina the Empress was so impudent as openly to confess that if she lay with a man an hundred times a day she might be wearied but never satisfied It may be objected that a man though of a cold constitution is of a hotter then the hottest woman Aristotle easily resolves this objection by this distinction that a mans upper parts are hotter and stronger but the lower parts of a woman are much hotter Wherefore it seems nature foreseeing the danger that might ensue by it prepared the menstruous bloud and ordained it to flow once a moneth to frigifie temperately those parts otherwise she might by an over-ardent venereall desire run mad Which is most lustfull a Maid or a Woman THough it is a difficult thing to determine if you consider the manifold reasons that may be alledged on both sides yet we shall in the end find that of the two the maid is least stirred and pricked on to lust For Virgins having never experimented those sweet and ravishing delights that are swallowed at a venereal banquet by that means they cannot so eagerly desire an unknown thing Ignoti nulla cupido Whereas a woman recollecting into her memory her past delights and fervently thinking on those she may enjoy she already burns in her fancy with impatient desires before she come to action Who then can deny but that one loves a delightful good if I may so call it and desires it with more fervency which is already known then that which is onely perceived by imagination But you will say that the force of imagination is very strong and oftentimes supposeth more then really there is Beside a maid more abounds with bloud seed and spirits Again when their courses first begin to flow their lust is very much sharpened and that 's the reason that Aristotle adviseth parents diligently to observe the actions of their daughters at that time that is at the age of fourteen sometimes twelve because then they are most apt to be drawn to commit uncleanness What then may we determine in so dubious a matter We can say no more but this that the maid is more lustful intensively the woman
extensively as continually having in her remembrance her past and future sweet ravishing imbraces The signes and marks of lustfulness from a mans temperament age disposition of body and his Countrey Temperament IN the first place the sanguine complexion is that which hath the greatest proclivity to Venus for in this temperament hath calidity and humidity almost the sole predominancy such was the complexion of a man of Arragon of whom it is reported that he his wife ten times a day In the second rank is to be accounted the melancholick whose flatuous humour much whets the edge of lust In the third place the Cholerick which though it abounds not with seed yet there are sharp spirits which cause prurition Whence Plato gathers that concupiscence and anger are cousin-germans for the seat of both these passions is the Liver The last temperament is the Phlegmatick which being cold and moist the edge of lust is thereby supprest Age. THe youthful age is the time of Venus her harvest In old men there is not so much vigor and heat as to prick them on to lust whereas youth is all spirit and life Hence the Poet Prima Cupidine is aetas manet apta triumphis Non gaudet veteri sanguine mollis amor The youthful age lies ope to Cupids dart But the old man is valued not a Sick men want seed by reason of their weakness old men want it because they have no strength to concoct their aliment young lads have it not because it s converted into increment And youths though they have it yet by a small matter they lose it accordingly Seneca saith Juvenilis ardor impetu primo furit Languescet idem facilè nec durat diu In Venere turpi ceu levis flammae vapor Disposition of body A Thin body both gives and receives far more delight then a fat corpulent one For fat men are destitute of much bloud and therefore are inclined to cold your fat women are commonly barren Ovid affirmes what I say to be true in saying that Thy leanness argues love seem sparely fed And sometimes wear a night-cap on thy head Countrey THose which inhabit cold Countreys are both hot and strong it must needs be then that they are inclined to venery The Thracians a war-like people loved venery so well that they gloried in the multitude of their wives Thus Ovid sings of Tereus King of the Thracians being in love with Progne Progne in Tereus such a burning breeds As when we fire a heap of hoary reeds Or catching flames to sun-burnt stubble thrust Her face was excellent but inbred lust Inrag'd his bloud to which those climes are prone c. The Egyptians so much devote themselvs to this kind of life as that few among them are found chaste Americus reports that in his voyage to East-India he found an Island whose inhabitants were so extremely given to lechery that his Mariners were hadly ashore before ten women were about one man every one desiring him to appease and qualifie their burning itch these people have among them an herb which hath such a mysterious quality as that it will dilate girles privy members and magnifie and longifie their boys members to both which they use to administer it that they may the sooner be capable for to exercise them The signs of lustfulness from the stature colour strength and season of the year From the Stature MEn of a low or short composure of body injoy a more quick and piercing sense of venereal pleasure then tall men For since their aliment doth not increase their bodies certainly the more oft it is converted into seed This holds even in beasts the Elephant brings forth but one and yet the little Coney bears twelve the Wren eighteen yet the Pigeon but two Colour ARistotle in his Epistle to Alexander admonisheth him to beware of the red hair'd man because as he is given to all manner of vices so especially to incontinency Women that have flaxen hair are for the most part wanton of the same signification are brown hairs Therefore Physicians advise to choose a nurse that 's brown for by her temperate natural heat she breeds good milk That man or woman that have hairs of a leadish colour proceeding from adustion are insatiable in venery Beauty ALthough a beautiful soul may inhabit in a comely body yet it is not ordinary to meet with them both so accomplished It is a thing we seldome see Juvenal Beauty and honesty agree Demetrius Hysmael Lais and Faustina were beautiful and handsome even to admiration yet unchaste even to detestation Season of the year WOmen are most lustful in the Summer but Men in the winter Women being of cold and moist temper are refresh'd and cherish'd by the application of its contrary whereas a man is debilitated by the too much extracting of his proper heat Wherefore for the commodity of both Sexes the Spring is to be chosen as the best season of the year for generation Signs of lustfulness from diseases Barrenness BArren Women for the most part are unsatisfiable in their lust And this is so upon two considerations First having no children they are so much the more desirous to have them and therefore they would use the means oftner Give me childen saith barren Rachel or I die But the chief reason is that they abound with so much heat and bloud as it burns the mans seed the same thing makes them excessively lecherous Retention of the Courses OBstructions do so inflame the womb and genitals that as they cause a prurition so likewise they are the original of a thousand dangerous symptomes The sign of this indisposition of body is too too visible to every ones eye to wit and universal paleness This wanness if we may credit Ovid in his Art of Love is an excellent indicium of a loving soul Let him that loves look pale for I protest That colour in a lover still shews best Orion wandring in the woods look'd sickly Daphne be'ng once in love love colour quickly Bunch-Backs THese sort of men as they are for the most part proud and fantastick so they are commonly very lecherous They seldome or never are fat therefore we may suppose that the seminal humour by reason of the shortness of their back dath pass immediately into the seminal vessels This may be the reason that Camels use copulation all the day long There are very few defective in one part that are not gratified by nature in some extraordinary manner in some other part Those that have lame legs are fruitful and lustful for that which should nourish those parts is turned into seed Wherefore Antianita Queen of the Amazons being reprehended for marrying a lame man made this her plea that Claudus optimè virum agit The lame man is the best womans man Concerning Satyriasis THis affection is an itching in a womans privities causing in her an ardent desire to scratch them This disease is so powerful that it forces women against their custome
companions his six-foot-long not without their admiration and laughter Petronius makes mention of one that had so large and long a Priapus as that all the rest of his body seemed but as an appendix to it You may ask the question how these men were known to be so qualified The Ancients had publick baths where the men went in naked so that if any appeared to have greater members then ordinary the standers by gave a great shout So that that doubt is easily resolved Phisippus Haeasterus reports in the sixth Decade of his observations that there was a man in his time had a monstrous great Yard full of innumerable warts just like the seeds in a bunch of grapes The top of this mighty thing was as big as the head of a new-born child The part adjoyning with the scrotum was an ell long The prepuce drawn back had the likeness of a horses coller If you desire a larger description of it consult with the Author himself where you may see the shape of it cut in brass Some questions concerning the Pudenda WHy is the Yard composed of nerves Because nerves are strong and have a very great sense of feeling and thereby mankind injoys the greater sensual pleasure in the venereal act Why is the Yard fat Because it might not be any impediment to its erection the nature of fat being laxative and mollifying wherefore it is that the fatter a man grows the less becomes his Priapus Why is he that hath a desire to piffe unable to perform the venereal act till such time as he hath evacuated his water Because the pores of the yard being filled with moisture they cannot admit of any thing more of that nature Why is it that there are two holes in a mans yard the one a passage for the water the other for the seed Because the one helps the way of the other for were it not so it is to be feared that that passage would by reason of seldome copulating be wholly stopped up Why did the Ancients believe that there is a certain kind of spell in the pudenda against witchcraft It may be from an old custome the Italians had in worshipping the privities of Bacchus For on his Festival day they carried them about first into the fields and then into the city where an honest Matron did crown them with laurels and gatlands Concerning the excellency vertue and temper of the stones EVen as the chyle in the ventricle in the liver the bloud the vital spirits in the heart and the animal in the brain are concocted for the preservation of life so for the propagation of mankind is the seed wrought and prepared by the stones or testicles They are called so from the Latin word testes which signifie witnesses and truly a man without such witnesses will have bad success in his cause if a woman be of the Jury These are the flower of life the well-springs of generosity and valour of heat and of pure bloud In brief as without them the body becomes effeminate so it loses the most part of all the fore-mentioned vertues Besides they are not onely of such inestimable value in men but also the stones of other creatures Concerning the usefulness of the Castors stones there is none so ignorant in Physick but knows somewhat of their excellent quality They are hot and dry and are good against any disease except a violent feaver The stones of a dung-hill-cock do wonderfully refresh the body being eaten and do increase seed for which purpose they are used by new married people Amatus Lusitanus tells us a notable story of a woman that prepared a dish of them for her husband being a man that little used her company carnally but it seems these stones so altered his body that he immediately was troubled with such a priapisme as nothing would satisfie him till he was in bed with his wife Into which he was no sooner entred but he plied his wife so close that she was able to hold out no longer but ran out of the bed from him and he after her but being not able to overtake her he went into the room where his three maids lay and went into the bed to them and begat them all with child None knows what farther mischief he would have done had he not been prevented by a Physician The stones of a young Pig do wonderfully help barrenness both in men and women and will cause them to be fruitful A Foxes stones dried have the same vertue Horses stones are an excellent thing to bring away the secundines of women Gesner knew a man that got his living by helping women by this remedy They are likewise very good against colical paines as Fonseca saith The powder of a Bulls stones is commended for curing ulcers in the vulva an Asses and Stags for expelling of poison a Goats against shedding the water in the night a Ganders are excellent good to help conception immediately after congression and lastly a mans testicles though they are placed in the last rank yet for their variety of vertue excel all will make excellent mummie good against all diseases See more of their vertue in Crollius and the rest of the Theophrastians What may be the reason that though a man loveth a woman extraordinary well yet after the injoyment of her his love grows cold HOw unhappy are they that are in love They are alwayes distracted with anguish and grief they are ever perplexed with new cases they lived a dying life and a living death He a long time languisheth for the possession of his dearly beloved but in a far shorter time is satiated and glutted with her The reason may be because being in love his fancy is perverted and so judges of its effects contrary to what really it is En quod non esset esse putaret amor Besides the mind is most eagerly bent on that which is forbidden nitimur in vetitum and therefore like a torrent it overflows and becomes more impetuous by opposition Too much liberty in any thing nauseates the appetite I have heard of a Gentleman that kept a Lady of pleasure allowing her two hundred pounds for yearly maintenance but would not marry her because saith he knowing she is my own I shall disesteem of her whereas now I accost her every time I come to her as if she was a new mistress Cornelius Gallus professeth that he was perditly in love with a fair virgin and could have been willing to have redeemed her life by his till she yielded to his unlawful imbraces and then he slighted her Hence Ausonius Hanc volo quae non vult illam que vult ego nolo She that is willing to love me To her unwilling will I be And a little after he proceeds Oblatas sperno illecebras detrecto negatas Proffered pleasures I defie Give me her that doth deny If love be onely a desire as some say it is then desire is no desire when it is satisfied Concerning
castrating Men and Women IT s a custome among great Princes but especially among the Turkish Emperours to have Eunuchs to wait upon their wives for fear lest their beds might be dishonoured In these our times its usual to cut children when they are young that they may become the better Musicians for by that means they have a more clear and harmonical voice Castration is effected either by collision or excision Collision is the compressing the stones and so squeezing out the substance of them By Excision when you depress the scrotum with the testicles and so make an incision on the line and take them out clearly both together But Paulus Aegineta hath a better and easier way which is by pricking with a sharp instrument the Epididymis which is the second outermost skin that covers the testicles and knits the didymos to the seminal passages by which means the testicles are hindred of transferring the seed It s a far harder matter to Eunuchize women yet in former and latter times it hath been accomplished Antonius Ulmus saith it may be done by cutting the Nympha which is the throne of love and lust Thus many of the Egyptian women have been used by reason of their untamed lust Now properly to castrate a woman is to take out her womb for the doing of which since it is so hard and dangerous I dare not give any directions A particular relation of such things as will increase seed and lust ALl sorts of round roots especially Scallions Satyrion Struthium Bunguen Beets Capars Acoras Squils c. likewise al salt things and shel-fish do augment very much the seed so doth also Goats milk Theophrastus reports that that there was an Indian brought him an herb that not onely the eating but even the touching of it would excite a man to lust so much as to cause him to copulate as often as he pleased He adds more that some that have eaten it have acted venereally twelve times in the space of an hour This Indian confesseth that by it he spent himself seventy times till at last his seed issued by a drop and last of all came his very bloud Johannes Shenkins writes of another herb which grows on Mount Atlas that increaseth lust beyond any credit Moreover he saith that if a maid should chance to piss on it she would as infallibly lose her maiden-head as if she lay with a man A multitude of herbs more there are that have this quality in them which are so many that they would be too tedious for our intended discourse to describe Wherefore to conclude this subject take two or three receipts which are great provokers of lust and strengtheners of the body Recip Mellis anacardi mellis apum butiri vacicini ana Let them boile and so let them be drunk in wine Let there be made also a suppository ex adipe anatis granis cotti pyretro in oleo de nuce Indica Arnaldus pills Recip Faeniculi assi seminis erucae ana unc 2. Arnaldus pills Tere lacte vaccino Fallopius his electuary to strengthen and cause a titillation in the privities Recip Noctilucas praeparat cum 4. Specimen Aramat Diambrae ros an unc 1. Pulpae carnis nucis Indicae unc 5. Seminum cinarae excortis unc 1. Let this be taken after dinner and after supper I shall conclude with Ovids receipt in his Art of Loving Pepper with biting nettle-seed pray mix With Bastard Pellitory some few sticks Which beaten and in cold wine drunk up clear Make sprightfull men aloft their standards bear A brief description of a Womans Genitalls THere are four things subservient to her secret parts Spermatical vessels both preparing and carrying the Testicles the Womb and the Vulva As in men so in women there are found four vessels preparing the seed namely two veins and two arteries The testicles are inwardly placed to the sides of the Vulva because they should be more heated they are lesse then a mans being broad and glandulous thin and moist Whereas a mans stones are covered with four tunicles a womans are onely with one These in a woman by reason of a certain disease will grow as big as a mans head so saith Schenkius The womb is like a fruitful field wonderfully propagating and husbanding the seed that is sown in it It s situation is in the Hypogastrium between the bladder and the rectum intestinum It s magnitude is various according to the age of the person temperament venereal use talness of the body or barrenness The wombs of virgins and sterile women are much less then pregnant women or whores It s shape is somewhat long yet round in the forme of a great pear For the substance of it it is membranous for its more commodious shutting at conception and likewise for the inlargement of it as the child within increaseth in growth The womb is divided into four parts viz. the bottom the inner mouth the neek of the womb and lastly the orifice of the neck Those parts that are obvious to the eye are the pubes or hairy region Venus hill and the two lips separated by a slit or scotch within which lips lie latent the Nymphae four caruncles and the passage for the urine The neck of the womb is all that which belongs to the inmost mouth and its a long chanel like the scabbard of a dagger which is the receptacle of the yard to sheath it self The inner mouth is that which receives the seed and then immediately shuts so close as if it was an entire body The body of the womb is that which contains and cherisheth the seed some have called these privy parts a Lion First because they and that beast have much alike the same smell Lastly because as that beast is very greedy and desirous of a mans bloud so is the womb of his seed which is nothing else but pure and refined bloud Concerning the Clytoris A Little in the cleft of the Vulva is the Clytoris its substance is fleshy arising out of the mouth of the womb almost filling the empty space of the pudenda It is somewhat longer in Summer then in Winter for by reason of the heat it inlarges it self nay many times it issueth out metamorphosing the woman into a man This is the seat of love and pleasure for by a mutual contrition of the mans yard with it their seed is provoked and so meet for the propagation of mankind How to contract the Vulva being too large and wide WHen this is too large it receives the yard with too great a facility hence both parties are insensible of its progress and by that means there is little or no seed ejected But by the way let us examine from whence this amplitude proceeds Upon consideration we shall find it may happen from immoderate use of venery which we may conjecture from contraries for if widows stay long without a husband their privities will so close as