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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

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

a flatuous humour or spirit which extends the yard and causes its erection About the pubes grows hairs because those parts are very hot and moist and these serve for a covering and an ornament The glans alwayes reserves its magnitude though the yard is inflamed and swelled by venereal spirits The prepuce which serves as a cap to cover the head of the yard keeps it from all outward inconveniencs as dust c. It is a dangerous thing if the prepuce be cut because it cannot be rejoyn'd If you desire a longer description of these parts consult with Anthropographers From whence proceeds the erection of the Yard IT s erected sometimes from wind and spirits sometimes from the heat of the Arteries which are in the spermatick vessels The truth is it is as great a wonder it should rise to so great a weight from so small a thing as when it stands not as it is for a womans womb to open so large at the very time of travail as to give room enough for the child to issue out and yet all the time before it is so close shut as that the point of a needle cannot enter it The yard being made of a nervous and spungy quality quickly distends it self from the affluence of spirits proceeding from the seed And therefore it is that it hangs its head as soon as ever the seed is evacuated because with the seed flows abundance of wind and spirits which are the cause of its stiff standing Whether a too long or a too short Yard be obnoxious to generation A Mean in all things is the best thing in the world To over-do or under-do in effect is one and the same fault Wherefore it is not to be questioned a too long yard is not good For it is a long while before it doth stand and doth not long remain so for the spirits are not able to support so great a weight Again it is so long before seed comes through it and then too much cooled that the woman hath spent her self a long time before the mans issueth and so renders that act ineffectual to make work both seeds should meet Let not thy mistress use too swift a sail Nor let thy haste beyond her speed prevail Both keep one course your oars together strike Your journie's one then make your pace alike Tog ther strive let both meet at the mark You may no question groap it in the dark Then is the complement of sweet content When both at once strive both at once are spent Ovid. On the otherside in my opinion the short yard least of the two to be endured Ask the question of good honest women that know by experience what I say to be true Because though it stands more stiff and ejects the seed more vigorously yet it reaches not so far as sufficiently to provoke a womans lust and seed How to inlarge the pudenda to a fit proportion in case it be neither long nor thick enough IT s nothing worth if those parts partake not of a due thickness as well as length the former being more useful and delightful to a woman as Avicen will have it Wherefore that there may may be an equality of them both let us prescribe some helps The Arabians counsel in this business to use hot oyles or fat things or an infusion of good store of milk for milk being fattish and of a thick substance it insinuates it self into the pores and by that means obstructs them and hinders the exhalation of spirits through them Milk hath many more excellent qualities conducing very much to the inlarging of the privities Ground wormes steeped in wine then dried and lastly pounded with the oyl of sweet Almonds is an excellent secret for this purpose In the same manner may be used Leeches The receipt of Rhazes is this Take an Indian nut and open it and you shall find in it a sweet water then take a Leech and put into it and let it be inclosed for eight dayes then take it out and pound it and anoint the yard Dioscorides saith that Coriander is very good for the amplification of the virile parts for the same reason that it increases seed and incites lust but take heed by these means that you inlarge them not too much for the afore-cited reasons How to shorten the Yard being too long AS it will be a hard matter for me to perswade those men that are thus qualified to diminish this member because most glory in its longitude and magnitude so I am sure to displease well-affected women in prescribing things so contrary to the excess of pleasure Yet since I look more to the good of posterity then to satisfie their foolish humours let me tell you that are troubled and would be cured of this redundancy that you must for a time keep a spare diet This is the first remedy in all preternatural tumours or redundant affections He must likewise for a time bid adieu to wine and to all things that increase lust as Pine apples Almonds pigeons and all hot and flatuous things but rather eat Hens Lettice c. and all cold things Copulation will diminish the Yard very much but that 's onely a medicine lawfully used by married men Many things more might be alledged were it not that most affect rather things that will increase then lessen their privy members Of venereal impotency THis may proceed from three causes Either first from the want of seed or from its coldness Secondly from the stones either from the want of them or else being too little and cold by reason of which they either receive not seed or else work it not sufficiently Or lastly from some defect of the Yard as there may be many If it proceed from the first distemper there is nothing more to be done then to take things that are hot and that increase lust as strong bear and wine Ovid in his Art of Loving saith thus much of it In wine is lust and wanton youths desire Joyn wine to love and you add fire to fire If the cause lie in the Yard then let that part be corroborated with hot and dry things as Mushromes Turbith Coloquintida Simp. Comp. Diaphenicon Hiera Cocchiae aggregativae There are again many things that dry by degrees as Guaicum Sarsaparilla Sassafras Mastick Juniper These things must be applied outwardly a Bulls gall a Hares gall the decoction of wilde Cucumers and the oyle of Nutmegs with which the genicals are to be anointed which will wonderfully corroborate and comfort them Concerning some men that have had wonderful great Genitals SUch men the Ancients called Onobeli of which kind of men Histories make often mention I knew a boy that had such huge great privities as that where ever he went he was pointed at for them His yard would be a long time before it stood but being once erected he could carry upon it thirty pound weight Being a merry fellow he would often-times shew his