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A93284	Rare verities. The cabinet of Venus unlocked, and her secrets laid open. : Being a translation of part of Sinibaldus, his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things out of other Latin authors, never before in English.; Geneanthropeiae. Selections. English	Sinibaldi, Giovanni Benedetto, 1594-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3863; ESTC R184190	34,716	116

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

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

night pollutions afford more pleasure and do more debilitate then a mans spontaneus copulating with a woman Because there flowes when a man is asleep a greater quantity of seed then if he was awake For being at rest nature recollects the spirits and sends down a greater quantity of heat to the bowels Whilest one is awake the spirits are dispersed but congregated when the senses are at ease And hence it is that many men are very subject to this manner of pollution No doubt women are troubled in the same manner Aristotle is of the opinion that they do ejaculate their seed in their sleep and afterwards have the same affections as men have namely dissolution and weakness c. He that intends copulation ought to be free from turbulent passions of the mind and vain phantasmes THe mind must not then be troubled either with fear anger wrath grief or such like perturbations for Venus requires calme and serene minds which must sit at her table such as are wholly composed of tranquillity but alienated from all sorrow and sadness According to the Poet speaking of Venus Non solet in maestos illa venire thoros Fair Venus never goes to bed To those that are with sorrow fed This is not onely requiste for pleasure sake but chiefly for generation For sad or weeping women cannot conceive Experience tels us that Virgins ravished are never with child or on the other side if she be possest with too much joy So that it plainly appears the mind must then be equally poised which is absolutely conducible to the begetting a fair well proportioned and wise off-spring Learned men whose minds are continually prepossest with cares study and meditation seldome beget wise children but are for the most part fools and naturals Moreover the mind must cast off all idle phantasmes for the force of imagination is wonderfully powerful can so alter the seed as to change it into what form it listeth Albertus Magnus tels a story of a Queen that had the picture of an Ethiopian hung up in her bed-chamber which being continually in her sight and so whereever she was she had the idea of it in her fancy When she was brought to bed though her husband and her self were very fair she was delivered of a black child No doubt Jacob knew sufficiently the force of imagination in laying the coloured rods before the sheep when they were to be leapt by the rams Gen. chap. 30. This is the reason that the children of an adultress are commonly like her husband for fearing and suspecting her husband might come and find her acting her villany she hath his representation in her sight and so the child becomes like him and not the true father Whether to copulate backwards after the manner of beasts is best THe causes of sterility are many many of which proceed not from the yard or seed but from an absonant and incongruous use of Venus Although the common way of congression be more civil and comely yet it s less fruitful then that way which nature shewed every beast The womb is inflext and therefore it stands to reason that the yard ought to be in the like posture Hear Lucretius his opinion of this more ferarum Quadrupedúmque magis ritu plerúmque putantur Concipere uxores quonium loca sumere possunt Pectoribus positis sublatis semina lumbis But enough of this a thing proper onely for beasts altogether unbeseeming men but if it must be used by any let them be such as marry onely for lust Concerning pendulous venery us also many other phantastical venereal postures APuleius calls that pendulous venery when the man lies under and the woman upon him These are his own words Haec dicens inscenso grabaulo super me sensim ac crebra subsiliens lubricisque gestibus mobilem spinam quatiens pendulae veneris fructu me satiavit usque dum lass is animis et marcidis artubus simul ambo corruimus But as this is prejudiciall to a mans health so likewise it is unfit for generation For by this means the seed cannot stay within the Womb it being naturally very slippery Some again copulate standing which much wearies the man and hinders conception Others do it sitting but in that gesture there cannot be an apt and close connexion of the members See more in Aretines Postures Whether there are Pigmies and how they are generated THat there were and are such creatures is no fable nor feigned story These are men a cubit high in stature as the word πύγαν signifies Pliny saith that these diminutive men do ride on goats in stead of horses for three moneths together spoyling and laying waste all the habitations that is the nests of the Cranes with the hope of their future issue that is their eggs As for their houses they are made of dirt feathers and egg-shels but Aristotle contradicts him and saith that they live in holes in the earth But as for their generation it 's no easie matter to conjecture It may be from the paucity of seed but more probable from the streightness and narrow capacity of the womb hindring thereby their increment after conception In imitation of which some dainty Ladies use to inclose a Puppy within some small pot and so the dog grows so big as he hath room Though we cannot justly derive their original yet it 's not much to be questioned but there are such otherwise so many learned men would not write of them so much and to so little purpose Amongst whom Caelius Rhodiginus attests he hath seen them not much longer then an ell as you may read it at large in his Lectiones Antiquae cap. 20. Whether there were and are Giants and whence have they their original BOth sacred and profane writers confirme that there were Giants See what the holy Scripture saith of them in Numbers 13. Deuteronomy 3.1 King chap. 17. Plinie relates that there was found by reason of an earthquake the body of a man fourty six cubits long Galleotus Martius makes mention of a man whose name was Pallas killed by Tyraeus his carcass was found in Henry the thirds time which standing measured the walls of Rome in height Americus Vesputius first found out a land which he called the Isle of Giants in which the men are ordinarily five fathomes long But how these are begotten and why they appear not in these latter dayes is a difficult thing to find out Hippocrates thinks that the temperature of the air and climate is a great means of immense growth Therefore he saith it is that Asia bring forth things fairer and greater then other parts of the world because there is there such an equal and temperate mixture of the seasons of the year It 's no wonder then if our times are not infested with them since we are destitute of those things that in all probability are the cause and original of them viz. clemency of the heavens equality of the seasons or plenty of