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A77798	Anthropometamorphosis: = man transform'd: or, the artificiall changling historically presented, in the mad and cruell gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome loveliness of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature; with figures of those transfigurations. To which artificiall and affected deformations are added, all the native and nationall monstrosities that have appeared to disfigure the humane fabrick. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant. Scripsit J.B. cognomento chirosophus. M.D.	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.; Fathorn, William, 1616-1691, engraver.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.	1653 (1653)	Wing B5461; Thomason E700_1; ESTC R202040	309,892	550

forth the differences and severall sorts of Hermophradites in these words Differentiae quatuor Leonide Auctore existunt tres quidem in viris una in mulieribus In viris siquidem alias juxta regionem inter scrotum anum alias in medio scroto forma muliebris pudendi pilis obsiti apparet Tertia verò ad haec accedit in qua nonnulli veluti ex pudendo quod in scroto est urinam profundunt In mulieribus supra pudendum juxta pubem virile genitale frequenter reperitur quibusdam Corporibus extantibus uno tanquam Cole duobus autem veluti testiculis Sic mero Isaac Israelita Solomonis Arabiae regis filius adoptivus Hoc licet tempore sit naturale in viro tamen turpius In viro muliere fit quatuor modis tribus in viro uno in foemina Viris fit in pectine in testiculis velut vulna vera mulieris pilosa ut in foeminis Tertius modus est gravior quia per virgam vulvam mingunt Mulieribus vulva sit in pectine sub vulva post veretrum maximi testiculi Ei licet in his utriusque sexus genitalia sint eorum unum tamen altero sit luxuriosius potentius etsi sunt alii Hermophroditi qui in utroque sexu omnino impotentes sint Those who are curious to know more of this ugly representation may find satisfaction in the Chapter of Differences of Hermophradites written by the same Author And what Cure this vile deformity admits The causes of Hermophiadites the same Author affords in this place There is a Booke written in French called the Hermophradite Vide licet lib. 1. Hermoph cap. 38. which doth notably set forth the effeminacy and prodigious tendernesse of this Nation But let us a little examine the Causes of their Generation De medicin Com. 1. Dial. 5. Andernacus to Mathetis enquiring why Nature in Humane Bodies doth so mock and laugh man to scorne Answers saies he knows no other cause besides the influx of the stars intempestive copulation and evill diet since at this day there is such corruption of life and manners and so great Lust that it is no wonder if men altogether degenerate into Beasts And although Naturall Philosophers and Physicians partly impute this conjunction of Sexes to the material and efficient Cause and partly to the Cells of the Wombe Yet those causes sound to me most probable which are alleaged à Decubitu and the time of Conception Sunt enim qui velint horum generationem causari à decubituminùs convenienti vel in congressu vel post congressum In congressu quidem monente Lemnino indecenti non nunquam ait vitiosus hic infamisque conceptus ex indecoro concubitu conflatur cùm praeter usum ac comoditatem exercendae veneris virsupinus mulier prona decumbit magno plerunque valetudinis dispendio ut qui ex inverso illo decubitu herniosi efficiuntur praesertim cum distento oppletoque cibis corpore inusitata hac inconcessáve venere utuntur A decubitu supino post congressum sic enim Dominicus Terellius in muliere posteaquam virile semen receperit in utero positura corporis observanda Semper vitanda est quae modo supino fit The reasons are here alleadged Androgyni In Bauhin li. 1. cap. 30. Hormoph Pierius Fenestella Annal. Tertul. advers Valent. c. 33. which appeares by your Lunensian women who taking no care to this supine positure after conception bring forth more Hermophradites many Authors taking notice of store of Hermophradites among the Lunensians By which discourse you may see what a hand the lust and folly of a man hath in this Hemophraditicall Transformation or Androginall mixture Those who in old time were called by the name of Androgyni were reputed then for prodigious wonders Howbeit as Pliny notes Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 7. cap. 3. Aul. Gel. l 9. c. 4 Isidor lib. 11. cap. 3. Jul. Obseq lib. prodig in his time men tooke delight and pleasure in them M. Messala C. Livius Consuls in Umbria there was a Semi-man almost twelve yeares old by the command of the Aruspices slaine L. Meteblus and Q. Fabius Maximus Consuls there was an Hermophradite borne at Luna Idem by command of the Southsayers cast into the sea P. Africanus C. Fulvius Consuls Idem in the Country of Ferretinnum there was an Hermophradite borne and carried unto the River Gn. Domitius Cajus Fannius Consuls Idem in Foro Vessonum another borne and cast into the Sea L. Aurelius and L. Caecili'us Consuls Idem about Rome there was another Hermophradite some eight yeares old found and carried unto the sea L. Caecilius L. Aurelius Consuls Idem there was another about ten yeares old found at Saturnia and drowned in the Sea Q. Metellus Tullius Didius Consuls Idem another was carried from Rome and drowned in the Sea A course taken to prevent Courses Cn. Cornelius Lentulus P. Licinius Consuls there was an Androgynus found Idem and carried to the Sea Beyond the Nasamones and their neighbours confining upon them the Matchlies there be found ordinarily Hermophradites called Androgyni of a double nature and resembling both Sexes Male and Female who have carnall knowledge one of another interchangeably by turnes as Caliphanes doth report Cited by Pliny Nat. Hist lib. 7. Aristotle saith moreover that on the right side of their breast they have a little teat or nipple like a man but on the left side they have a full pap or dug like a woman Montuus de Med. Thoresi lib. 1. cap. 6. I knew saith Montuus an Hermophradite who was accounted for a woman and was married to a man to whom she bore some sons and daughters notwithstanding he was wont to lye with his maids and get them with child This is remarkable Anno 1461. in a certaine City of Scotland there was an Hermophrodite maid got her Masters Daughter with child who lay in the same bed with her Veinrichius Com. de Monstris pag. 7. facie aversa being accused of the Fact before the Judges she dyed being put into the ground alive The Tovopinambaultian women of Brasill in in America Purch Pilgr 4. lib. 7. never have their Flowers not liking that purgation it is thought they divert that flux by some meanes unknown to us for the Maids of twelve yeares old have their sides cut by their mothers from the armehole down unto the knee with the very sharpe tuske of a certaine beast the young Girles gnashing with their Teeth through the extremity of the paine some conjecture they prevent their monthly flux by this remedy Women affecting streightnesse Concerning the nature of the Menstruall bloud there hath been and yet is hard hold and many opinions among Physicians All agree that this bloud is an excrement for like a superfluity it is every month driven forth the Wombe but many would have it an unprofitable

be young they call them Bardasses that is Sodomiticall Boyes Purchas Pilgr 2. lib. 8. but if they be men grown and have no Beards they call them Fooles and men of no credit and some of them refuse to buy and sell with such and say they have no wit and that they will not beleeve them And therefore they weare their Beard at full length Idem eadem the marke of their affected gravity and token of freedome Therefore the Aghas of the Great Turke who are most commonly Graves description of the Grand Sign Court five and thirty or forty yeares of age before they are sent abroad because they come out of the Seraglio with their Beards shaven they are fain to stay within doores for some daies to let them grow that they may be fit to come amongst other great men and as soon as their Beards are grown they go abroad and begin their visits Such Beard-haters as are before spoken of Barclay's ship of Fooles are by Barclay clapt aboard the Ship of Fooles Tempore quae fuerant ignominiosa vetusto Atque scelesta nimis jam nostra aetate probantur A multis Ritusque novi servantur honore Laudis erat quondàm barbatos esse parentes Atque supercilium mento gestare pudico Socratis exemplo Barbam nutrire solebant Cultores sophiae quorum sapientia mundum Deseruit Celsas Jovis conscendit ad arces Long Beards affected Sed nunc irrepsit morum corrupta libido Manavitque nefas vitae subdolus usus Ecce pudet mul●os Barbam nutrire severam Sed vellunt toto Exc●e●os de corpore pilos Ut servare cutem molleus corpusque supirum Possint stultum caesus ductare per omnes There are some Nations that are mad in nourishing their Beards Bocat de Flu. Gargaro for in the Islands in the River Gargarus which the Itchnophagi inhabit they wear their beards down unto their knees Steph. Ritter Cosmogr pros These seem to be descended of the Long O Bards a people of Germany which were so called à longis bardis that is their Bipennine and long Beards and your European Galatians seeme to have the same extraction Jo. Bohem. de rit gent. lib. 3. for the Noblemen among them although they shave their Cheeks yet they so nourish the Beard that they cover their bodies whereby it happens Formal Beards affected that when any one eates his Beard is replinished with food and when they drinke the drinke seems to be carried down as by a Channell Strange affectations of old had the Graecians in the formality of a Beard it being reputed the solemne signe of a Philosopher and some have been and are so affected with the cut of their Beards that there have been Cases invented to preserve their formality Guzman I remember plaies upon a formall Doctor for such a practicall absurdity girding at the cut of his Beard for he saith that the fashion of his Beard was just for all the world like those upon your Flemmish Jugs and that a nights he puts it in a presse made of two thin Trenchers scrued wonderfully close that no Gitterne can be closer shut up in its Case that it may come forth the next morning with even corners bearing in grosse the forme of a broome narrow above and broad beneath his Mustachoes Ruler-wise straight and levell as a line and all the other haires as just and as even as a privet hedge newly cut answering each other in a uniforme manner having the point thereof in forme of a Quadrant drawn neatly out that it might make the fairer and larger show For such a goodly Beard accompanied with a Roman Bonnet like your Breifs and your Larg's in a singing mans book doth grace his lesser and grosser notes As if this were sufficient to make him be held a great Scholler as if this faire outside were a qualification for him In the Province of Heez Grimstone of their manners Mag. Cosmogr which is under the Dominion of the the Emperour of Morocco they that are not married dare not weare a Beard but when they are married they suffer it to grow and as Leo in his description of the people of Hea Beard-Diers Leo Hist Africa saith there you may easily discerne which of them is married and who is not for an unmarried must alwaies keep his Beard shaven which after he be once married he suffereth to grow in length A conceited restraint yet grounded it may be upon this concession that the Beard is the ensigne of manhood and reverend gravity and therefore best became the honourable estate of marriage Strabo Geogr. l. 15. ex O●es In Cathea the men for an ornament die their Beards with many and divers colours and many of the Indians do it for the Region beares admirable colours for the tincture of their haires and garments and these people being frugall in other things are given too much to adorning themselves Nor is the Art of falsifying the naturall hue of the beard wholly unknown to this more civilized part of the world especially to old Leachers who knowing grey haires in the Beard to be a manifest signe of a decay of the generative faculty and an approaching impotency incident to Age vainely endeavour to obliterate the naturall signification thereof For there are some grown so foolish and indeed are accounted no better who being now grown old decrepid and unable for any kind of use or exercise and this their weaknesse being notorious and well known to all the world and this their rotten building ready to fall yet are they willing to deceive themselves and every body else if they could contrary to all truth and reason by dying the haires of their beards and heads as if any man were so ignorant and did not know that there are none of these changeable coloured beards The vanity of Died Beards but at every motion of the Sun and every cast of the eye they present a different colour and never a one perfect much like unto those in the necks of your Doves and Pigeons for in every haire of these old Coxcombs you shall meet with three divers and sundry colours white at the roots yellow in the middle and black at the point like unto one of your Parrats feathers Thus man according to the story of Guzman as man lives but his own 30 yeares and then he inherits the Asses 20 yeares from 50 to 70 living like a dog and from 70 to 90 plaies the Ape counterfeiting the defects of Nature and using of tricks and toyes and I know not what foolish and phantasticall devices And hence it is that we often see in those that come to this age for all they be so old they would faine seeme young tricking themselves up so neatly and so sprucely ●etting it like young Gallants up and down the streets in gay cloaths visiting this Lady making love to that Mistris and