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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

were either Whores Bawds Panders c. by which means he converted his royal Palace into a most filthy brothel-house Doubtless there is scarce a whoredome or adultery committed wherein this sluggish vice hath not a predominant hand You may be resolved of the Poet why Aegisthus fell adulterately in love with Clitemnestra both of which being steep'd in ease and rest and she being a lusty Lady taking likewise with impatience the absence of her husband such secret familiarity sprung up between them that at last it turned into flat adultery Aegisthus did fair Clitemnestra wo Being idle he had nothing else to do Those yet have been cried up through the whole world for their prowess and valour have by a little giving their minds to rest been miserably infested with this lustful vice Achilles had no sooner rested himself from slaying the Trojans but he was ready to embrace his love if you will believe Ovid as he expresseth it in these termes He unarm'd his head To tumble with his love in a down bed Those war-like hands that did but late embrew Themselves in bloud of Trojans whom they slew Were now imployed to tickle touch and feel And shake a lance that had no point of steel It should seem by this that amorous encounters is a petty kind of war or at least a duel if I may terme it so improperly otherwise Mars the God of war would have never loved it so well Here Ovid relates his being in love with Venus The God of war doth in his brow discover The perfect and true pattern of a lover Nor could the Goddess Venus be so cruel Mars to deny such kindness is a jewel The Sun both sees and blabs the sight forthwith In all great haste he speeds to tell the Smith Oh Sun what bad example doest thou show What thou in secret seest must all men know For silence sake ask bribes from her fair treasure She 'll grant thee that shall make thee swell with pleasure The Smith whose face is smok'd with smut and fire Placeth about the bed a net of wire The lovers met where he that train hath set And both are catch'd within that wiry net He calls the Gods the lovers naked spraul And cannot rise the Queen of Love shews all Mars chafes and Venus weeps Moreover Phlegmatick and Melancholy men as it is confest are not easily induced to love yet when once they are so they love most vehemently Another thing that doth invite or rather charm men to love is Musick As without breath no pipe doth move No musick kindly without love To be sure they have little else to do then to behave themselves as servants befitting Venus that spend most of their most precious time in reading Romances and such like amorous and fictitious stories Concerning those things that increase love A Morous desies are rekindled by the sight and remembrance of the object beloved Tu nisi vitaris quicquid revocabit amorem Flamma redardescet quae modo nulla fuit Or as one of our English-men hath it Fair beauty is the spark of hot desire And sparks in time will kindle to a fire Philosophers are of opinion that we are nourished of that of which we are Love hath its original from the eyes and from thence by consequence it must have its increment and aliment Love though blind by often meeting and seeing the person beloved observes some new pleasing charme which it observed not before which keeps up its heart from sinking into despair and which forceth him to use importunity and opportunity that he may at last crown his desires Do but persist that suit thou hast begun In time will chaste Penelopy be won Oft what she most denies she most desires In frosty woods are hid the hottest fires Onely begin to reap what thou hast sown A million to a mite she is thy own Whether Love may be cured by medicaments ALthough there be many things that will blunt the edge of lust yet when love is a chast passion being of a long time rooted in the heart it s not easily to be supplanted but by death or the object possessed or enjoyed Apollo that by vertual heat Did virdant plants and herbs create Yet found no herb or plant to be A medicine for loves malady Concerning Love-potions or Philters ALbertus Magnus and Plinie relate several things conducing to this Philter though for the most part vaine and feigned Former times joyned to ours will afford variety of examples of such men as by these potions have so perverted female fancies as in an instant they have caused them to love those which a little before they hated At Brixia there is a monument which makes mention of a woman that used this art with this inscription D. M. Qui me volent Valete matronae matresque Familiâs vixi ultra Vitam nihil credidi Me Veneri alumnae addixi Quos potui pellexi philtro Et astu viro humato Non vidua fui c. It s reported that Charles the Great King of France was by this means charmed to affect a woman of a mean beauty and had he not been miraculously admonished by an Angel what to do he had been for ever undone The thing effecting this is small if you consider its external quality as being nothing but a little stone fastned to the womans gums but it seems its internal vertue was such that it made him lay aside and almost wholly forget the affairs of his kingdome that thereby he might have the more freedom and occasion to be continually imbracing this strumpet At last a Priest of this Kings was admonished by an Angel to kill this woman to free his Majesty from such a pernicious malady which accordingly was done yet the King still loved the dead and almost stinking carcase till the second time the Angel appeared and told him he should remove the stone out of her mouth which was no sooner done but the King then as much detested her as before he loved her There is no question but Philters may be made but the danger the composing and administring them will bring may be a sufficient ground to hinder any from making them Whether females may change their Sex HIstories are full of such accidents Ausonius saith Venus Epheborum virgo repente fuit Hippocrates Marcellus Donatus with many other learned Physicians can sufficiently furnish you with many examples of such catastrophe's Michael Montanus attests that in his time a maid by a violent jump was changed into a man her Clytoris issuing forth Fulgosius writes of a maid of fifteen years of age being married the first night her husband lay with her was thus changed whether it was by reason of her too much motion in the venereal act or the fervent heat of those parts I cannot tell but probably it might happen by an extraordinary dilatation of the Clytoris by much hoat and thereby being provok'd and by reason of its swelling on every side not able to contain