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CURLL <i>Fleet-street</i>.</b><br> +<br> +<b>MDCCXVIII.</b><br> +</center> + +<a name='Page_3'></a><a name='Page_2'></a> + +<center><img src="images/bar1.gif" width="284" height="110" alt= +"bar1" border="0"></center> + +<a name='PREFACE'></a> + +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + +<br> + + +<p><img src="images/letp.gif" width="94" height="112" hspace="5" +border="0" alt="P" align="left"><i>refaces now a Days are rather +Apologies for the Works to which they are prefix'd, than written +for Instruction; and generally a ludicrous Scene is expected, if +the Performance be of an airy Nature; or, if not, at least an +introductory Specimen of what the Reader may hope for in the Body +of the Work</i>.</p> + +<a name='Page_4'></a> + +<p><i>I shall make no Apology for my Subject, notwithstanding an +impudent Libeller has endeavour'd to load Authors and Publishers of +Works of this Nature with the utmost Infamy; and herein I admire at +the Front of the Fellow, to pretend to Chastise others for Writing +only, when he practises a great deal more Iniquity than any Book +extant can prompt him to, every Day that comes over his +Head</i>.</p> + +<p>MY <i>Design in the following Sheets is meerly as an innocent +Entertainment for all curious Persons, without any Views of +inciting Masculine-Females to Amorous Tryals with their own Sex; +and I am perswaded there will not be one single</i> HERMAPHRODITE +<i>the more in the World, on account of the publishing this</i> +TREATISE.</p> + +<a name='Page_5'></a> + +<p>IT <i>may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should +produce an</i> HERMAPHRODITE <i>to publick View, as an +incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this +kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any +Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such +demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might +endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Curiosity would +spur her to a particular Examination</i>.</p> + +<p><i>The Intrigues of my</i> HERMAPHRODITES <i>are indeed very +amazing, and as<a name='Page_6'></a> monstrous as their Natures, +but that many Lascivious Females divert themselves one with another +at this time in this City, is not to be doubted: And if any Persons +shall presume to Censure my Accounts, grounded on a Probability of +Truth, I shall be sufficiently reveng'd in proclaiming them, what +my</i> HERMAPHRODITES <i>are found to be in the +Conclusion</i>—Old Women.</p> + +<p><i>I confess, all Histories of extraordinary Conceptions from +these Intrigues, or by Women without actual Copulation, are equally +fabulous with those of the Engendring of Men: It would be as +surprizing to find a Man with a teeming Belly, as to see a Woman +increase there meerly by her own Applications</i>.</p> + +<a name='Page_7'></a> + +<p><i>I doubt not but this small</i> TREATISE <i>may put some +Persons upon a previous Examination of Robust Females, that they +may be at a certainty with respect to mutual Enjoyment; but I would +not have them rashly conclude from large Appurtenances only, that +they are unnatural, but, on the contrary, agreeable +Companions.</i></p> + +<p><i>To conclude, I fear not the Censure of</i> HERMAPHRODITES, +<i>nor of those that would be such to satisfy their vicious +Inclinations; neither am I under any apprehensions from the Censure +of our Reforming Zealots</i>.</p> + +<center><img src="images/deco1.gif" width="124" height="84" alt= +"deco1" border="0"></center> + +<br> +<br> +<a name='Page_8'></a><a name='Page_9'></a> + +<center><img src="images/bar2.gif" width="402" height="140" alt= +"bar2" border="0"></center> + +<a name='Tractatus_de_Hermaphroditis'></a> + +<h2><i>Tractatus de Hermaphroditis</i>:</h2> + +<h3>OR, A<br> +<br> +TREATISE<br> +<br> +OF<br> +<br> +HERMAPHRODITES.</h3> + +<br> + + +<p><img src="images/lett.gif" width="94" height="113" hspace="5" +border="0" alt="T" align="left">he Secrets of Nature have in all +Ages been particularly examin'd by Anatomists and others, and this +of <i>Hermaphrodites</i> is so very wonderful, that I am p<a name= +'Page_10'></a>erfectly assur'd my present Enquiry will be entirely +acceptable to all Lovers of curious Discoveries; and as it is my +immediate Business to trace every Particular for an ample +Dissertation on the Nature of <i>Hermaphrodites</i>, (which obliges +me to a frequent Repetition of the Names of the Parts employ'd in +the Business of Generation) so, I hope, I shall not be charg'd with +Obscenity, since in all Treatises of this Kind it is impossible to +finish any one Head compleatly, without pursuing the Methods of +Anatomical Writings.</p> + +<p>Though in <i>Ovid</i>'s <i>Metamorphosis</i>, <i>Salmacis</i>'s +being in Love with <i>Hermaphroditus</i>, and not succeeding in her +amorous Wishes, her praying to the Gods to join their Bodies in +one, has no Weight in it; yet, that the Notions of Hermaphrodites +are not entirely fictitious, I need only mention the Servant of +<i>Montuus</i>, who took his Hermaph<a name='Page_11'></a>rodite to +be a Male when he lay with his Maids, and for a Female when she lay +with her Husband to propagate their Species, the two Hermaphrodites +of <i>Licetus</i>, and the Story of <i>Ausonius</i>, which he +relates of an Hermaphrodite of <i>Bonavento</i> in <i>Italy</i>; +and Histories are full of Confirmations, that many Persons in the +World have had the privy Parts of both Sexes.</p> + +<p>For the Definition of the Word Sex, it is no other than a +Distinction of Male and Female, in which this is most observable, +that for the Parts of the Body, there is but little Difference +between them; but the Females are colder than the Males, and abound +with more superfluous Moisture; wherefore their spermatick Parts +are more soft and humid, and all their natural Actions more +vigorous than those of Men: But Hermaphrodites are a mixture of +both Sexes, and to both incompleat.</p> + +<a name='Page_12'></a> + +<p>In all Ages Hermaphrodites have been talk'd of, though +particular Vouchers have been many times wanting, which is +generally the Case where a Deficiency of the Secrets of Nature is +to be detected; the amorous Parts are certainly more valuable than +any other principal Parts of the Body, as they afford the greatest +pleasure of Life; and there is always the greatest Difficulty +attends the Discoveries of Impotency, (which is less obnoxious) and +nothing but the Force of the Law executed by a lascivious Female, +in the State of Matrimony, will occasion a Record of a want of +Substance for the amorous Adventure.</p> + +<p>It is natural to suppose, that these Persons of a mix'd Nature +call'd Hermaphrodites, have had generally more Prudence and Conduct +than to marry under such Incapacities, which would prevent an +agreeable Cons<a name='Page_13'></a>ummation in the amorous +Embrace, (however they may sport and dally with each other) as they +must expect nothing but the greatest Resentment and highest +Indignation from the Persons they have presumptuously espous'd, and +must inevitably tend to their being expos'd to the World, as +Prodigies and Monsters; and they have in Times past been the more +effectually deterr'd from engaging in Matrimony, as they were +immediately on their Discovery cast into the Sea or some large +Rivers, or banish'd into some desolate Island, as presages of dire +Events, and the worst of Calamities.</p> + +<p>But the Civil Law does not regard Hermaphrodites as Monsters, it +permits them to make a Choice of either of the two Sexes for the +Business of Copulation, either in the Capacity of Men or Women; but +if the Hermaphrodite does not perform his Part agreeable to Nature, +the same Law inflicts the<a name='Page_14'></a> Punishment due to +Sodomy, because he has abus'd one Part, contrary to Matures Laws. +This must be determin'd by the Predominancy of the Parts, for there +are some Hermaphrodites so very vigorous as to embrace Women, and +others whose Parts are so dispos'd as to receive with pleasure the +Caresses of Men; and where there is nothing to hinder the amorous +Action, but that they are capable of enjoying mutual Pleasure, it +would be a piece of injustice to prohibit their Nuptials.</p> + +<p>Monsieur <i>Venette</i><a name='FNanchor_A_1'></a><a href= +'#Footnote_A_1'><sup>[A]</sup></a> tells us, that there are five +kinds of Hermaphrodites: The first have the privy Parts of a Man +very entire; they make Water and Engender like other Men, but with +this difference, that they have a pretty deep Slit between the Seat +and the Cod, which is of no Use in Generation.</p> + +<a name='Page_15'></a> + +<p>The second Sort have also the Parts of a Man very well +proportion'd, that serve either the Functions of Life or +Generation; but they have a Slit not so deep as the first Sort, +which being in the midst of the Cods, presses the Testicles on each +side.</p> + +<p>The third Sort have no visible privy Parts of a Man, only a +Slit, through which the Hermaphrodite makes Water. This Cavity is +deeper or shallower, according to the plenty or default of Matter +employ'd for the forming of it, yet one may easily find the Bottom +of it with one's Finger. The Terms never flow by this way, and this +kind of Hermaphrodite is a true Man as well as the two others above +mention'd; for these sorts of Hermaphrodites become Boys, about the +Age of fifteen, in an Instant, and are as valiant in the Adventures +of Love as other Mal<a name='Page_16'></a>es, and this is +oftentimes affected by some violent Action, as <i>Mary Germain</i>, +mention'd by <i>Paræus</i>, leaping over a Ditch, strain'd +herself, and became instantly a Man, through the coming forth of +the privy Parts.</p> + +<p>This may be a sufficient Caution to young Gentlemen not to be +too hasty in their Marriages, lest, in a vigorous Consummation with +a very youthful Partner, the imaginary Female should at once appear +an Hermaphrodite.</p> + +<p>The fourth Sort of Hermaphrodites, are Women who have the +<i>Clitoris</i> bigger and longer than others, and thereby impose +upon the Vulgar, who know but little of the Parts they are compos'd +of, and of these kinds of Hermaphrodites, <i>Columbus</i> says he +examin'd all the Parts, and found no essential Difference from +other Women; the only Sign that they are Women is, that they suffer +the flowing of their Terms every Month.</p> + +<a name='Page_17'></a> + +<p>The fifth Kind, are those that have neither the Use of the one +nor the other Sex, and have their privy Parts confus'd, and the +Temper of Man and Woman so inter-mix'd, that one can hardly say +which is most predominant; but these sorts of Persons are rather a +kind of Eunuchs than Hermaphrodites, their <i>Penis</i> being good +for nothing, and their Terms never flowing. Of this Kind was the +<i>Bohemian</i> Woman, that pray'd <i>Columbus</i> to cut off her +<i>Penis</i>, and to enlarge her <i>Vagina</i>, that she might the +more freely, as she alledg'd, join amorously with a Man.</p> + +<p>These are the several Sorts of Hermaphrodites, mentioned by +Monsieur <i>Venette</i>; and the four first of them, tho' they have +the Name, yet Nature has not refus'd them the Advantage to make use +of their Genital Parts, and to Engender as others. The Male +Hermaphrodite may get Children, and the Female conceive; so that +neither the one nor the other differ from Men or Women, but only by +a superfluity or a deficiency of <a name='Page_18'></a>Parts, and +such as does not disturb the business of Generation.</p> + +<p>The fifth Sort are call'd perfect Hermaphrodites, because they +are incapable of using either of the Sexes; but some Persons fancy +there are a sort of Hermaphrodites which can make use of both +Sexes, and Engender both ways, though this is easily confuted, when +we consider that one of the privy Parts of an Hermaphrodite is +generally useless, as being contrary to the Laws of Nature, and +what confusion would it be, to find in one and the same Person a +Man's and Woman's Testicles, a Womb and a <i>Penis</i>? A Woman's +Genital Parts and a Man's are too different to admit of such an +Union, and to change the Use upon any occasion.</p> + +<p>Agreeable to the list mention'd Opinion, some Naturalists will +have it, that an Hermaphrodite, whi<a name='Page_19'></a>ch is very +vigorous as to both Sexes, may Engender within himself, without the +Company of another Person, having Matter to form a Child, a Place +to conceive it, and proper Liquid for Nourishment: In the same +manner as <i>Jack Hares</i> engender once in their Lives, and that +<i>Stags</i> do the same, which is maintain'd by the learned +<i>Langius</i>: But these Generations are both impossible and +ridiculous, the Naturalists must certainly be deceiv'd, in taking +some Parts of the Female for the Testicles of the Male; and what +probability is there that the Seed should come out of one Part and +into the other, without losing its Spirits, and altering +considerably in changing of Place? And if such a Thing were +possible, the Temperament that engenders Masculine Seed might as +well engender Feminine, and produce the Terms at the same Time or +something else in proportion to it.</p> + +<p><a name='Page_20'></a>Women having Beards, and being a large +Masculine Size, have been sometimes, by the Ignorant, accounted +Men, tho' they were true Women; and it cannot be said, that one Sex +is chang'd into another, for we never heard of Men that became +Women, and that their, privy Parts were abolish'd; or turn'd +within, in order to form the Genital Parts of a Woman. The +Hermaphrodites of <i>Licetus</i>, which conceiv'd and brought forth +Children, were real Women taken for Men, by reason of the length +and bigness of their <i>Clitoris</i>: And the Fisherman's Wife, +mention'd by <i>Antonius de Palma</i>, was only a Male, call'd the +third sort of Hermaphrodites undiscover'd, which was afterwards +manifested in the coming out of the Parts of a Man, when she had +been fourteen Years married. The Case was the same with +<i>Emilia</i>, marry'd to <i>Antonius Sperta</i>, mention'd by +<i>Potanus</i> who was accounted a Woman twelve Years, but was +afterwards reputed a Man, and married again to a Woman.</p> + +<a name='Page_21'></a> + +<p>For the Discovery of the Male and Female Hermaphrodite, these +Observations will be serviceable: A Person that is bold and +sprightly, having a strong Voice, much Hair on the Body, +particularly on the Chin and privy Parts, with the rest of such +Signs as discover Manhood, are certain Demonstrations that the +Hermaphrodite has the privy Parts of a Man in a more predominant +manner than those of the other Sex; and contrarywise, if an +Hermaphrodite has good Breasts, Skin smooth and soft; if the Terms +appear at their due Intervals; if there be a sparkling and +agreeableness in the Eyes; and if other Signs are observ'd, that +commonly distinguish a Woman from a Man, these are Arguments that +the Hermaphrodite has the Privities of the Female Sex of a good +Conformation; and if the <i>Vagina</i> is not too defective, such +an Hermaphrodite ought to pass for a Woman.</p> + +<a name='Page_22'></a> + +<p>I doubt not but there are many Persons in the World of both +Species, particularly of the Female Sex, who would willingly assume +to themselves the Parts belonging to Hermaphrodites, if they could +have a vigorous Use of the Members of both Sexes, upon any lustful +Inclination; a lascivious Female would be transported at the +Thoughts of acting the Part of a Man in the amorous Adventure, and +a lecherous Male would propose equal Pleasure in receiving the +Embraces he use to bestow; but tho' most Persons agree that Women +have the greatest Sense of Enjoyment in the Act of Copulation, (as +without all question they must, by the Situation and Disposition of +the Parts) yet they would be more forward in satisfying this brutal +Curiosity than those of the opposite Sex. Men are more easy to be +limited in the Pleasures of <a name='Page_23'></a><i>Venus</i> than +Women; as they are endu'd with more Reason, so they are generally +easily satisfied in those Enjoyments, which were chiefly design'd +for the propagating of their Species.</p> + +<p>If two Persons, being Hermaphrodites, should Marry with an +expectation of pleasing each other, as Male and Female by turns, +they'll meet with a Disappointment, for the Reasons already +mention'd, <i>viz</i>. That one of the Members of Hermaphrodites is +most commonly useless, and if a Man should by chance be married to +a Person of his own Sex, before the Parts are come down, (which, as +I have observ'd before, sometimes happens, where Persons are wedded +in an Age of Infancy) a great Disappointment will ensue to the +Husband, when his Partner shall take the Constitution of a Man, and +be ready to engage with him, instead of his encountering with her; +and in respect of a masculine Woman's bei<a name='Page_24'></a>ng +taken by the Length of her <i>Clitoris</i> for a Man, <i>Daniel de +Bantin</i> only sported with his Wife, but was got with Child +himself by one of his Companions. The <i>Clitoris</i> not being +perforated, the Hermaphrodite can furnish no Matter for +Generation.</p> + +<p>The <i>Clitoris</i> in Women suffers erection and falling in the +same manner as the <i>Penis</i> in Men; and the <i>Vagina</i> +likewise swells to make the Passage streight and easy, for the +reception of the <i>Penis</i> in the Time of Enjoyment. Sometimes +the <i>Clitoris</i> will grow out of the Body two or three Inches, +but that happens not but upon extraordinary Occasions, upon violent +Inclinations to Copulation, over much Heat of the Privities, +<i>&c.</i> and by this means a Man will be hinder'd from +knowing his Wife; but the larger it is, so as no way to prevent +their mutual Embraces, the greater is the Pleasure, especially to +the Female; and without this Part, the fair Sex would neither +desire the Embraces of the <a name='Page_25'></a>Males, nor have +any Pleasure in them, or Conceive by them.</p> + +<p>Women well furnish'd in these Parts may divert themselves with +their Companions, to whom for the most part they can give as much +Pleasure as Men do, but cannot receive in any proportion the +Pleasure themselves, for want of Ejaculation, the Crisis of +Enjoyment to the Male in the Intrigues of <i>Venus</i>. I am +inform'd that Diversions of this nature are frequently practis'd by +robust and lustful Females, who cannot with any prospect of safety +to their Reputations, venture upon the Embraces of a Man, though +they are never so strongly enclin'd. The unnatural Pleasures of +this kind are finely illustrated in the following Song, written by +Mr. ROWE, which I take it will not be improperly inserted in this +Place.</p> + +<a name='Footnote_A_1'></a><a href='#FNanchor_A_1'>[A]</a> + +<div class='note'> +<p>Le Tableau de l'Amour Conjugal, par Monsieur <i>Venette</i>. +Paris 1710.</p> +</div> + +<center><img src="images/deco2.gif" width="78" height="77" alt= +"deco2" border="0"></center> + +<a name='Page_26'></a> + +<hr style='width: 65%;'> +<a name='SONG'></a> + +<h2>SONG.</h2> + +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>I.</span><br> +<br> +<i>While</i> SAPPHO, <i>with harmonious Airs,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>Her dear</i> PHILENIS +<i>charms,</i></span><br> +<i>With equal joy the Nymph appears,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>Dissolving in her +Arms</i>.</span><br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>II.</span><br> +<br> +<i>Thus to themselves alone they are,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>What all</i> Mankind <i>can +give;</i></span><br> +<i>Alternately the happy Pair</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>All grant, and all +receive</i>.</span><br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>III.</span><br> +<br> +<i>Like the</i> Twin-Stars, <i>so fam'd for Friends,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>Who set by Turns and +rise; </i></span> <br> + <i>When</i> one <i>to</i> THETIS <i>Lap descends</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>His</i> Brother <i>mounts the +Skies</i>.</span><br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>IV.</span><br> +<br> +<i>With happier Fate, and kinder Care,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>These</i> Nymphs <i>by</i> Turns +<i>do reign,</i></span><br> +<i>While still the</i> Falling, <i>does prepare</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>The Rising, to +sustain</i>.</span><br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>V.</span><br> +<br> +<i>The Joys of either Sex in Love;</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>In each of them we +read,</i></span><br> +<i>Successive each, to each does prove,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>Fierce Youth and yielding +Maid</i>.</span><br> + <br> +<br> + + +<center><img src="images/bar3.gif" width="568" height="72" alt= +"bar3" border="0"></center> + +<a name='Intrigues_of_Hermaphrodites_and_Masculine_Females'></a> + +<h2><i>Intrigues of Hermaphrodites and Masculine Females</i>.</h2> + +<br> +<a name='Page_27'></a> + +<p>The hotter the Climate, the stronger are the Inclinations to +Venery. When I was formerly in <i>Italy</i>; there happened a +notable Adventure in the Neighbourhood of <i>Rome</i>, between a +certain Lady call'd <i>Margureta</i>, one of a noble Family in the +Papal Dominions, and a Lady of <i>France</i>, whose Name was +<i>Barbarissa</i>: These two Females were in their Statures very +near equal to the largest siz'd Male; they had full and rough +Faces, large Shoulders, Hands and Feet; and but slender Hips, and +small breasts: In short, they resembled Men in all respects, but +their Dresses, their Gates and Voices, and indeed they were +suspected to be Hermaphrodites. These Ladies, I am inform'd, paid +frequent Visits to each other, and 'twas always observ'd, that no +Bod<a name='Page_28'></a>y was admitted to their splendid +Entertainments, which heighten'd the Curiosity of a Servant in the +Family of <i>Margureta</i>, to attempt a Discovery of their +Intrigues, they always locking themselves in, the moment they had +dispatch'd their Suppers: In order to this, on a Time, this +Servant, call'd <i>Nicolini</i>, with a piercing Instrument of +Iron, and the Assistance of an Artificer, ingeniously made a +Communication for the Sight into the next Room, by working a small +Hole through the Wainscot, opposite to the Bed, in the Chamber +wherein the two Masculine Ladies accustom'd to solace themselves. +At the next Meeting, <i>Nicolini,</i> to his no small surprise, had +a Prospect of the two Females embracing each other, with a +succession of Kisses of no short Duration. After this they both +drew up their Petticoat, and exposing their Thighs to view, they +mutually employ'd their Hands with each oth<a name= +'Page_29'></a>er, in the same Manner, and with the same force of +Inclination, as a juvenile Gallant would make his Approaches to +what he most admires in a beautiful <i>Belinda</i>, at the same +Time continuing the closest Salutations; at last one of the Females +threw herself down upon the Bed, and displaying her self +commodiously, the other immediately begun the amorous Adventure, +covering her Companion so effectually, that <i>Nicolini</i> could +not possibly discover any farther Particulars: They had not +continu'd their Sportings long before <i>Margureta</i>, which +officiated now instead of the Man, arose from <i>Barbarissa</i>, +and turning towards the Window with her Cloaths up in her Arms, +<i>Nicolini</i> immediately discover'd something hang down from her +Body of a reddish Colour, and which was very unusual: They both +panting, and almost breathless, retir'd from the Bed to a T<a name= +'Page_30'></a>able, where they sat down and refresh'd themselves +with sufficient Quantities of generous Wine. About an Hour after +this, they began to renew their Frolicks, and it being +<i>Barbarissa</i>'s turn to caress, who was not so Masculine as +<i>Margureta</i>, to incite the falling down and erection of her +Female Member, she turn'd over a large Book, amply stor'd with +obscene Portraitures, wherein the amorous Combat was curiously +describ'd in the utmost variety of Postures which were ever +practic'd, or the Head of a youthful and ingenious Painter could +invent; but this not having the Effect expected, <i>Margureta</i> +strip'd her self naked, as did likewise <i>Barbarissa</i>, and both +dancing about the Room, they gave each other repeated Strokes with +their Hands on their white Posteriors; and this likewise failing to +move <i>Barbarissa</i>, <i>Margureta</i> open'd a Cabinet, and +taking from thence a large Birchen Rod, she flogg'd <i><a name= +'Page_31'></a>Barbarissa</i> lustily, her Buttocks seeming to yield +to that amorous Discipline; upon this, something appear'd from the +Privities of <i>Barbarissa</i>, like unto what <i>Nicolini</i> had +observ'd of <i>Margureta</i>, and they instantly put on their loose +Gowns, and ran to the Bed, where <i>Barbarissa</i> embracing her +Companion, did her Work effectually. After their Sportings were +over, that each had return'd the Favours receiv'd, they decently +dress'd themselves, and sat them down again to the Table, where, +after drinking a Bottle or two of the richest <i>Italian</i> Wines, +they kiss'd each other in the most loving manner, and +<i>Margureta</i> rang the Bell for <i>Nicolini</i> to light +<i>Barbarissa</i> down Stairs, who immediately taking leave of +<i>Margureta</i>, was carried in a Chair to her Place of +Residence.</p> + +<p>This Story sufficiently shews the unnatural Intrigues of some +Masculine Females, where by the falling down and largeness of the +<i>Clitoris</i>, <a name='Page_32'></a>they have been taken for +Men, as mention'd in my Description of Hermaphrodites, and are +capable of every Action belonging to a Man, but that of +Ejaculation. I next insert an Intrigue between two Females more +extraordinary than the former, by reason in this, Art was only +employ'd, and in the other there was something of Nature in it, +tho' viciously apply'd: I shall introduce it with several +Adventures which happen'd in this Cafe before the Scene was +accomplish'd, and which I doubt not will be acceptable. In the City +of <i>Ferara</i>, 'tis reported, there some time since liv'd two +Damsels who were of reputable Descent, and their Education was +equal to that of the greatest Quality in the Territories of +<i>Italy</i>; the Name of one of them was <i>Theodora</i>, and of +the other <i>Amaryllis</i>: <i>Theodora</i> was the Daughter of an +eminent Courtier, and in her Person most beautiful; her Shape was +form'd according to the nicest <a name='Page_33'></a>Rules of +Symetry; her Waste was slender, her Breasts were full and round, +and for Whiteness equall'd the falling Snow; her Face was exactly +compos'd, the Features strong and yet beautiful; her Cheeks more +lively than the Rose and Lilly; her Eyes sparkled beyond the most +shining Planets; her Teeth excell'd the best polish'd Ivory; soft +as Velvet were her Lips, and redder than Vermillion; her Hand and +Arm more white than Milk; her Feet small, and her Gate stately, and +on her Shoulders were display'd her auborn Tresses, hanging in +Ringlets to her Waste; in short, every Part that was visible +invited to hidden Charms; her Looks were languishing, and her +Eye-Balls large, which, perpetually rowling, cast a thousand Darts +at all Beholders. <i>Amaryllis</i> the Daughter of a wealthy +Merchant and no less admir'd for her Beauty than the lovely +<i>Theodora</i>; she was made up of Perfectio<a name= +'Page_34'></a>ns, and whomsoever she saw unguarded, she was sure to +captivate: These two Ladies were both of them cross'd in their +amorous Inclinations; <i>Theodora</i>, before she was thirteen +Years of Age, had made a powerful Conquest over the Affections of a +Youth of Gallantry, his Name was <i>Leander</i>, and he was the +eldest Son of a Nobleman of <i>Naples</i>; but <i>Theodora</i>'s +Father having no regard to the Happiness of his Daughter, after +<i>Leander</i> had made his Addresses, he forbad him his House, not +approving the Circumstances or the Character of the young +Gentleman; for the Father of <i>Theodora</i> was a mercenary +Courtier, having no regard to any but such as were in their Nature +Misers and sanctified Hypocrites, and <i>Leander</i> being a +Gentleman inclin'd to Extravagancy. <i>Leander</i> setting a +greater value upon his Education, Manners and good Nature than his +Fortune, was oblig'd to desist in his Pretensions and to sink under +the oppre<a name='Page_35'></a>ssion of Avarice: He determin'd to +leave <i>Ferara</i>, since he was there to see his Happiness, no +more, however, he resolv'd to send his Fair One, a moving <i>Billet +Doux</i> before his Departure, which he did, and it was as +follows.</p> + +<p>To the <i>GODDESS</i> of <i>Ferara</i>, the Beautiful +<i>THEODORA</i>.</p> + +<p><i>Divine Creature,</i></p> + +<p><i>It is not to be admir'd that I, the meanest of your Servants, +should be rejected by your wealthy Parents, and that Heaven should +deny me a Happiness which it self only ought to enjoy; Why did +Nature make you so Beautiful and Deserving, and me so unworthy of +your Affection? My misery increases with your Happiness, unless you +participate my Pains; you are in the Bud of your Beauty, which when +full blown, will be like the Sun in the midst of the Horizon, +Illuminating the whole World, but <a name='Page_36'></a>its +penetrating Rays not to be gaz'd upon. You are the Lilly and I am +the Thorn; you beautify the rich fertile Vale, whilst I retire to +the barren Mountains. I will pass the Alps 'till I approach the +most aspiring Mount, and there, in view of</i> Ferara, <i>I will +lay me down and bid the World Adieu. When I am gone, remember that +you had once a Lover who could sacrifice every thing for our +Service, and without you he could enjoy nothing. I have not only +concerted my Journey from</i> Ferara, <i>but likewise to the</i> +Elysian Groves; <i>if my grizly Ghost should terrify that sordid +Wretch your Father, 'tis no more than he deserves, and if my Shade +appears to you, look on that unconcern'd which cannot injure you. +My last Request to you is to take care of your self, who am</i></p> + +<p>Your despairing Lover,</p> + +<p>But Admirer,</p> + +<p>LEANDER</p> + +<p><i>Theodora</i> receiv'd this moving Letter with a Concern +proportion'd to <a name='Page_37'></a>the melancholly Occasion; she +communicated it to an intimate Acquaintance, who likewise express'd +the utmost Uneasiness; the thoughts of the Catastrophe of the Loves +of <i>Theodora</i> and <i>Leander</i> presented a lively Idea to +<i>Theodora's</i> Companion, of the Miseries and Misfortunes +attending Mankind. "Hard is the Case (says she) that +<i>Leander</i>, one of the finest young Gentlemen of <i>Naples</i>, +should be sacrific'd to a mercenary Wretch, a Wretch, that in the +midst of plenty is poor and miserable, and who, tho' he has all +Things to compleat his Happiness, his avaricious Temper will not +permit him to enjoy the common Necessaries of Life: The Pleasures +of living he's a Stranger to, he lives despis'd, and will die +unpitied: But such is the inequality of Fortune's Favours, that +Merit must stoop and Ideots be advanc'd to the highest Pomp and +Magnificence. It is entirely out of your Power to give <a name= +'Page_38'></a>the pitied <i>Leander</i> the least Relief; your +Father's House is a Nunnery, he has his Locks and Keys to secure +you, and his Spies for Intelligence; but I advise you to send the +unfortunate Youth an Answer to his mournful Epistle." Upon this, +<i>Theodora</i> immediately call'd for Pen, Ink and Paper, and +wrote the following Answer.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>To the unfortunate LEANDER.</p> + +<p><i>I am sorry that you had the Misfortune ever to see me, and +the more for that in vain I seek your Relief; it is not in my Power +to forward either your Happiness or my own, which I confess I +should think compleat, if my mercenary Father would consent to my +Espousals; but it is so far from this, that I am to see for the +future, so that the <a name='Page_39'></a>Lilly you admire now +droops its Head, and the whole Vale's enclouded at my sorrowful +Fate; I would willingly accompany the Briar to the Mountains. +Impute not to me your approaching Calamities, which only increase +with</i> Theodora'<i>s. Think me no longer handsome, who have so +many Imperfections to sully those Trifles you call Beauties; No, +range me with Deformity, since other Ideas may increase your Pain. +I desire you to forget me, of I am oblig'd to endeavour not to +remember you.</i></p> + +<p>Your most disconsolate</p> + +<p>Lover,</p> + +<p>THEODORA.</p> + +<p>Upon receipt of this Letter, <i>Leander</i> quitted +<i>Ferara</i> with a Grief inexpressible, but however had +Resolution to finish his Journey to the Place of his Nativity +without self Violence, but soon after, resign'd a miserable +life.</p> + +<p><a name='Page_40'></a>I come now to the Story of +<i>Amaryllis</i>. <i>Amaryllis</i> was formerly deeply in Love with +a Gentleman of <i>France</i>, (she being originally of that +Kingdom) whose Name was <i>Sempronius</i>; his Person was stately +and very well proportion'd; his Face was ruddy and inclining to be +large; his Eyes full and lively, with Eye-Brows and Beard pretty +thick; of a dark brown Colour; and his Skin was clear, his +Shoulders were strong and well set, and Limbs rather large than +small, but exactly shap'd: He was perfectly good natur'd, +complaisant in his Behaviour, and gallant in his Amours, his Dress +was easy and genteel, his Approaches sprightly, and his +Conversation the most endearing. <i>Amaryllis</i> was extremly fond +of <i>Sempronius</i> and <i>Sempronius</i> was fond of +<i>Amaryllis</i>, without each other they were equally unhappy; +repeated Visits introduc'd each coming Day, and innocent Embraces +crown'd the Night: Love and Liberty were their constant <a name= +'Page_41'></a>Themes, and nothing was wanting but the Marriage +Ceremony to compleat their Felicity; but it so fell out, that after +a Day was appointed for celebrating their Nuptials, that a young +Gentleman of <i>Spain</i> call'd <i>Richardo</i>, envying the +Happiness of <i>Sempronius</i>, made several Attempts to disconcert +his Measures; and one Night, taking with him an Officer of Justice, +whom he brib'd to his Interest, he repair'd to the House of +<i>Amaryllis</i>; and knocking with great Violence, +<i>Amaryllis</i> was very much alarm'd; but she sent down her +Servant to enquire into the Occasion of this uncommon Approach. The +Servant no sooner open'd the Door, but <i>Richardo</i> and the +Officer of Justice enter'd the House, (beating down the Servant) +and immediately ascended the Stairs in pursuit of +<i>Sempronius</i>; during this Bustle, <i>Amaryllis</i> suspecting +a Design against <i>Sempronius</i>, (<i>Richardo</i> having +formerly offer'd his Service to her, and Revenge <a name= +'Page_42'></a>being the common Consequence of a Disappointment with +a <i>Spaniard</i>) lock'd him into a private Closet, which was no +sooner done, but <i>Richardo</i> enter'd the Room with his Sword +drawn, <i>Amaryllis</i> having but just Time to secure her Lover. +<i>Richardo</i> demanded of <i>Amaryllis</i> the gay +<i>Sempronius</i> as a Criminal, telling her he had committed a +Rape on the Body of the virtuous <i>Maria</i> a Lady celebrated for +Beauty, and to whom all <i>Italy</i> could not produce an Equal, +the Officer ran about the Room, crying, "Justice, Justice, where is +the Villain <i>Sempronius."</i> They search'd the Room very +diligently, and not finding <i>Sempronius</i> at last +<i>Richardo</i> address'd himself to <i>Amaryllis</i> in these +Words: "Madam, I hope you have more Virtue and Honour than to +shelter a Criminal, especially where one of your most beautiful Sex +is concern'd, and the greatest Innocence has been violated: If you +allow your House to <a name='Page_43'></a>to be a Sanctuary for +Offenders of this Nature, Justice will require Satisfaction at your +Door; you may your self expect the same Injury to your Person, and +I am now prepar'd to shew a Resentment that will not be pleasing to +<i>Amaryllis</i>, either comply with my Desires in producing the +Criminal, or expect to fall my Victim." This Speech very much +confounded <i>Amaryllis</i>; the Designs of <i>Richardo</i> she +could not easily penetrate, whether against her self or +<i>Sempronius</i> the Plot was laid, or whether it extended to +both, she could not determine: But at last she summon'd her Courage +and her Reason, and with a look of Indignation peculiar to her Sex, +she answer'd thus the malicious and designing <i>Richardo</i>: +"What Crimes <i>Sempronius</i> has been guilty of, is to me a +Secret, but that <i>Richardo</i> deserves the Character now given +of <i>Sempronius</i> is very obvious, and n<a name= +'Page_44'></a>eeds no Difficulty for me to affirm; your brutal +Inclinations are not easily satisfied: When you made your Addresses +to me, your Designs were base and dishonourable; you more than once +attempted with force to violate my Chastity, and for ought I know +you are now come upon the same Errand: What could make you approach +me in this hostile manner, but to Ravish <i>Amaryllis</i>, or to +Murder <i>Sempronius</i>, under a pretence of Justice? But let the +Event be what it will, I'll not deliver up him who is dearer to me +than Life, but dare a Villain to his worst." This heroick Speech +made by <i>Amaryllis</i> dash'd <i>Richardo</i> for the present; +but he being resolv'd to prosecute his Intentions (which indeed +were both to Murder <i>Sempronius</i> and ravish <i>Amaryllis</i>, +as she had guess'd) he advanc'd nearer to <i>Amaryllis</i>, and +took her in his Arms, upon which she cry'd <a name= +'Page_45'></a>out with violence, whereupon <i>Sempronius</i>, who +had heard every thing that had pass'd, open'd the Closet Door, and +sallying out Sword in Hand to defend himself and his Mistress, +<i>Richardo</i> rush'd from <i>Amaryllis</i> and attack'd +<i>Sempronius</i>; they fought sometime without any seeming +Advantage on either Side, 'til at length the Officer belonging to +<i>Richardo</i> knock'd down <i>Sempronius</i> and <i>Richardo</i> +ran him to the Heart, <i>Amaryllis</i>, through the Negligence of +the Officer, had an opportunity of escaping to a neighbouring +House, where, he acquainted the Inhabitants with the dismal +Tragedy; upon this Warrants were issu'd from the next Magistrates +for Apprehension of <i>Richard</i>, but took Post for +<i>Germany</i>, where secur'd himsef: in a famous Monastery. In +great despair and confusion <i>Amaryllis</i> left the Kingdom of +France and travell'd into <i>Italy</i>, to to forget this barba<a +name='Page_46'></a>rous Treatment of her unfortunate Lover. At +first she propos'd to retire to some Country Village, and spend the +remainder of her Life in Sighs and Groans, and complaining Sonnets; +for this purpose she compos'd the following Lines.</p> + +<hr style='width: 65%;'> +<a name='SONG'></a> + +<h2>SONG.</h2> + +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>I.</span><br> +<br> +<i>Since gay</i> SEMPRONIUS <i>now is gone,<br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>What Comfort yields my +Life?</span><br> +I shall Unhappy be alone,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>My Breast is fill'd with +Strife.</i></span><br> +<br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>II.</span><br> +<br> +<i>The Sun is set e'er Noon arrived,<br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Sad Glooms around me +spread,</span><br> +No flowing Joys the Lad surviv'd,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>He's now rang'd with the +Dead.</i></span><br> +<br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>III.</span><br> +<br> +SEMPRONIUS <i>Dear, where are ye stole?<br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Could I but find thee +strait,</span><br> +I'd cut the Thread of Life my Soul</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>On thy bless'd Shade would +wait.</i></span><br> +<a name='Page_47'></a> <br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>IV.</span><br> + <i>If to th' infernal Regions, Woe,</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>SEMPRONIUS <i>is +confin'd;</i></span><br> +His Ghost I'll trace, persue below<br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>To ease my tortur'd +Mind.</i></span><br> +<br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>V.</span><br> + <i>I still in vain, alas! prepare<br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>In vain I strive to +sleep;</span><br> +My Breast is fill'd with deadly Care</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>I'll lay me down and +weep.</i></span><br> +<br> +<br> +<span style='margin-left: 7.5em;'>VI.</span><br> + <i>All worldly Joys I bid adieu,<br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>All Pleasures I forsake;</span><br> +SEMPRONIUS still I'll sleep with you;</i><br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>I'll with the Touth +awake.</i></span><br> + <br> +<br> + + +<p><i>Amaryllis</i> did not long continue her Resolution of going +into the Country, fearing an invincible Despair would ensue; and +upon advising with a Bosom Friend, she was disuaded from it: Her +Intimate thought it might be a Diversion to her Melancholly to +repair to some popular City, where a variety of Conversation and +airy Entertainments, might, if possible, eraze the Memory of her +deceas'd Lover. Accordingly <i>Amaryllis</i> immediately set out +for <i>Ferara</i>, where she had been but an inconsiderable Time, +before she accidentally fell into the Company of <i>Theodora</i>, +whose Disappointment, already related, was little inferior to hers, +and both repeating their Stories, they found so near a Resemblance +in their Misfortunes, that they resolv'd to live to<a name= +'Page_49'></a>gether as Sisters or inseperable Companions, and to +use their utmost Artifices for the Relief of each other. I have +been led into this seeming Romance, to shew particularly the fatal +Disappointments attending these two beautiful Females, which were +very extraordinary, especially those of the Latter; and to shew, in +a particular manner, how these two Ladies first became acquainted, +as an Introduction to what follows. I come now to their Female +Intrigues, which were no less uncommon than their Misfortunes.</p> + +<p><i>Theodora</i> and <i>Amaryllis</i> liv'd together some Time, +and at last by the constant perusal of airy Books, and a few +entertaining Companions, they had in some, measure forgot their +unfortunate Lovers, but they resolv'd never for the future to fix +their Affections upon any Man living; and living in Luxury, in the +prime of their Years, in a hot inciting Climate, th<a name= +'Page_50'></a>ey at length were naturally inclin'd to the most +abominable Pollution: They provided artificial <i>Penis's</i> of +the largest Dimensions, and with Ribbons they fasten'd the Root of +the Instrument, in the same Situation as Nature has plac'd the +Substance in Man; they frequently embrac'd one another by turns, as +Man and woman in the amorous Adventure; and when their Vigour was +so much abated, that they were no longer able to struggle, the +Female uppermost withdrew, and taking another Instrument in her +Hand, she us'd it on her Companion with an Injection of Moisture, +which, with the rubbing, occasion'd such a tickling, as to force a +discharge of Matter and facilitate the Pleasure. This was their +daily Practice for a considerable space, 'till at last a Confident +of <i>Theodora</i>'s who was sometimes admitted as variety in these +Brutal Enjoyments, for a large Sum of Money reveal'd their +Intrigues to <i>Philetus</i>, a Youth of a very comly Person, but a +little Effeminate, who passionately admir'd the beautiful <i>T<a +name='Page_51'></a>heodora</i>, and who had made several Attempts +on her in vain.</p> + +<p><i>Philetus</i> being let into the Secret of <i>Theodora</i>'s +Intrigues, by the Assistance of the Confident, resolv'd to +personate a Lady of the first Figure at <i>Rome:</i> In order to +this, he furnish'd himself with a very rich and costly Female +Habit, and by the Use of Paint, which alter'd his Eye-Brows, +Cheeks, Hair, &c. and shaving every Day, he was sufficiently +disguis'd; all Things being now concerted with <i>Theodora's</i> +Confident, <i>Philetus</i> was admitted to wait upon +<i>Theodora</i> and <i>Amaryllis</i>, with a feign'd Message from a +Lady of their Acquaintance at <i>Rome</i>, and was entertain'd with +the utmost Respect and Grandeur, with occasion'd frequent Visits +between <i>Philetus</i> and <i>Theodora</i>, and at length there +was such an Intimacy contracted, by the Management of <i>Phil<a +name='Page_52'></a>etus</i> and the Confident, that <i>Philetus</i> +was permitted to be present in their Frolicks, and at last offering +his Service to <i>Theodora</i>; she with a great deal of difficulty +accepted his Embraces having not the least suspicion of the Design; +so that <i>Philetus</i> taking the artificial <i>Penis</i> in his +Hand, went to the Window from the Ladies, and pulling up his +Petticoats, pretended he had fix'd it round his Waste, and putting +the Instrument in a Furbelow of his Gown, he advanc'd to the Bed +where <i>Theodora</i> was laid in an airy Manner to receive him; +the Sight of the beautiful <i>Theodora</i>, in this captivating +Posture, caus'd an immediate Erection with <i>Philetus</i>, and +fill'd his Breast with amorous Fire; he approach'd his Charmer with +a Lover's' vigour, and <i>Theodora</i> was still a Stranger to the +Intrigue, 'till the moment of Ejaculation, which was not usual with +the same Instrument in her Embraces with <i>Amary<a name= +'Page_53'></a>llis</i>: When this happen'd she was prodigiously +surpriz'd, and endeavouring to disengage her self from +<i>Philetus</i>, he folded her more closely in his Arms; and in the +greatest Transport told her, he was her constant Admirer +<i>Philetus</i>: She upbraided him for this perfidious Method of +bringing about his Designs; however, upon his telling her, That her +strict way of Living made an uncommon Stratagem absolutely +necessary, that he hop'd she would excuse what Love had prompted +him to, and that notwithstanding what had past, his Designs were +honourable; <i>Theodora</i> considering, what had happen'd, and +experiencing a material Difference between Art and Nature, agreed, +on his humble Request, to Marry him; and a Priest was immediately +sent for, who solemniz'd their Nuptials. When the Ceremony was +over, <i>Theodora</i> sung this Stanza.</p> + +<i>The Shadow I'll no longer try<br> +<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Or use the pleasing Toy</span><br> +A sprightly Youth I can't defy,</i><br> +<a name='Page_54'></a> <span style='margin-left: 1em;'><i>The +Substance I'll enjoy.</i></span><br> + + +<p>After these Adventures were over, <i>Amaryllis</i> likewise +submitted to Matrimony with a Gentleman of <i>Ferara</i>; and they +both enjoy'd the greatest Happiness, making no difficulty to forget +all Sorrows past. The next Intrigues I shall mention, are of two +famous Hermaphrodites, who were more vigorous than common in their +Parts, at <i>Urbino</i>. It is not many Years ago (as the Story +relates) that there liv'd at <i>Urbino</i> two Hermaphrodites, +famous for their Intrigues, and indeed they were arriv'd to that +consummate pitch of Impudence, that they were not asham'd to own +their Bestiality, they not only frolick'd with each <a name= +'Page_55'></a>other, but with both Sexes in general; their Names +were <i>Diana</i> and <i>Isabella</i>, both of reputable Birth, and +well Educated. <i>Diana</i> on a Time being invited to the Nuptials +of a certain Nobleman of <i>Urbino</i>, accompanied him to the +House of a noted Clergyman, some distance from the Residence of +<i>Diana</i>, to be a Witness to the solemnization of the Marriage, +and being arriv'd there, every thing was instantly provided for the +Ceremony; the Bride was attir'd in the richest Brocade Silks, with +the finest Linnen that could be purchas'd; her Neck and Breasts +were exposed very low, and heav'd with Desire, filling the +Bridegroom with amorous Imaginations, her Hair was adorn'd with the +most beautiful and odorous Flowers, which surrounded her heavenly +Face, and made it appear like a Rose in its bloom, in a delightful +Garden, just ready to be gathered. The Bridegroom was dress'd in +Cloth of Gold, and Linnen of <i>Flanders</i> lac'd; on his Head was +a flaxen Peruke reaching to his Waste of very great Value, and by +hi<a name='Page_56'></a>s Side a Sword, whose Hilt was set with +Diamonds.</p> + +<p>The Parson by this time being ready to perform his Office, the +Bride and Bridegroom, and <i>Diana</i> were usher'd into a great +Hall, hung round with Scripture Paintings, particularly of our +Saviour, illustrating his whole Life from his Birth, and being laid +in the Manger to the Time of his Crucifixion. When the Service was +over, and the wedded Couple had join'd their Hands and Hearts, a +splendid Entertainment was provided by the Parson to refresh them +after the Fatigue of their Journey, which continuing 'till it was +late in the Evening, the Bride and Bridegroom, and <i>Diana</i> had +not time for their Return to <i>Urbino</i>, whereupon the Parson, +in good Manners, first took Notice of it, and withal offer'd them +the Use of his House, which they accepted, considering it would at +least be hazardous, if not impossi<a name='Page_57'></a>ble to +reach <i>Urbino</i> that Night.</p> + +<p>The Bride and Bridegroom, and all the Company, were as merry as +was possible, and after Supper, Directions were given by the Parson +for preparing the Beds; but before the usual Time of retiring to +Rest, his Brother coming accidentally from <i>Bonona</i>, there +arose some Difficulty with the Parson in the disposal of his +Guests, he having no more Beds than two at liberty: At last they +agreed that <i>Diana</i> should lye with the Parson's Wife, who was +a very handsom Woman, and the Parson and his Brother were to pig +together, whereby there would be a Bed at the Service of the Bride +and Bridegroom. Several Bottles of <i>Champaign</i> and +<i>Burgundy</i>, and of fine <i>Italian</i> Wines being drank, the +Bride and Bridegroom were put to Bed with a great deal of +Solemnity; afterwards <i>Diana</i> and the Parson's Wife were +lighted to their Apartment, and he and his Brother repair'd to +theirs.</p> + +<a name='Page_58'></a> + +<p><i>Diana</i> observing the Parson's Wife to be a beautiful +Woman, particularly as she undress'd her self, had a very strong +Inclination for her usual Sportings; and in order to carry on an +Intrigue with safety, she softly bolted the Chamber Door, which +being done, they both went to Bed, the Parson's Wife putting out +the Candle. They had not been long in Bed before <i>Diana</i> began +to kiss the Parson's Wife with Freedom, but she not suspecting any +thing farther, and supposing it might proceed more from Wine than +any thing else was pretty easy, 'till at last <i>Diana</i> threw +her self upon her, and began an Adventure, very displeasing, which +surpriz'd her to that degree, that she cried out vehemently.</p> + +<p>The Family, which had not been long at<a name='Page_59'></a> +rest, alarm'd at this unseasonable Noise, arose; the Parson came to +his Wife's Chamber Door, and finding it bolted within, he call'd to +her to know the occasion of this Disturbance; she answer'd, "That +she had a Man or a Monster in Bed with her, one that was then +violating her Person." The Parson supposing this to be a Design to +Cuckold him, order'd his Servants to break open the Chamber Door, +which being instantly effected, he rescu'd his Wife from the Power +of <i>Diana</i>. After this he seiz'd <i>Diana</i>, and upon +Examination, finding her to be an Hermaphrodite, having the Members +of both Sexes, he order'd his Servants to carry her to the Garret, +and tye her hands and Legs together, and then to put her into the +Bed of the Maid-Servant. This being done, the Parson went to Bed +again, as did likewise his Wife, and the Family was at rest the +whole Night; and the Noise, though it was great, did not disturb +the Bride and Bridegroom after their Enjoyments o<a name= +'Page_60'></a>f Wine and Love.</p> + +<p>The next Morning the Parson arose early, and going to the Bride +and Bridegroom, acquainted them with what had happen'd relating to +his Wife and <i>Diana</i>, who expressing a very great Concern, and +withal protesting, that the Injury was offer'd without the least +Design on their Parts, the Parson was reconcil'd to them, but +turn'd <i>Diana</i> out of Door with the Indignity she deserv'd. +<i>Diana</i> immediately return'd to <i>Urbino</i>, as did likewise +the Bride and Bridegroom some Hours after, having first made the +Parson a Present of a Purse of Gold for his Service and very great +Civility.</p> + +<p>It was not long after this, that <i>Isabella</i> walking in the +Streets of <i>Urbino</i>, in the close of the Evening, a Foreign +Count, of luscious Inclinations passing by her, gave her an amorous +Look, and addressing her with a great deal of Complaisance, she +seem'd for his Purpose, and indeed she long'd for a pleasing V<a +name='Page_61'></a>ariety, having met with no uncommon Adventure +for a considerable Time.</p> + +<p>The Count observing her inclin'd to Pleasure, invited her to his +House, which she at first rejected, but after a great deal of +Intreaty and Persuasion she condescended, not rightly apprehending +the Consequence, with a Gentleman that was a perfect Stranger to +her. When they were arriv'd at the House of the Count +<i>Isabella</i> was handed through several Rooms of State to an +Anti-Chamber, where he was desir'd to sit down, the Count calling +for his Servants to prepare a costly Supper; while the Supper was +dressing, he kiss'd and dally'd with <i>Isabella</i>, but she was +unexpectedly shy, behaving her self with a great deal of gravity; +at length the Supper was brought, consisting of Fish, Fowl, +Ragooes, Soops, &c. dress'd to the heighth of the Mode; they +both eat heartily and <a name='Page_62'></a>drank very freely of +noble Wines. After the Supper was over, the Count renew'd his +Addresses to <i>Isabella</i>, who seem'd a little more compliable, +but would not allow him the Fredom he desir'd, which had the usual +Consequences of encreasing his Inclinations: It growing late, he +carry'd her, to his Chamber, where after some Time, she, was +oblig'd to go to Bed with him.</p> + +<p>The Count, after he was in Bed, being inspir'd with Love, began +the amorous Adventure with <i>Isabella</i>, before he had +thoroughly examin'd the Secrets of Nature; and after a short Space, +finding an Uneasiness in his amorous Struggles, he put down his +Hand to discover what it was, and feeling something like the +Testicles of a Man, he rose from her in the greatest Confusion, and +calling to his Servant for a Candle, in his passion he pull'd out a +sharp Pen-knife and cut off the external Members of +<i>Isabella</i>, highly resenting the Affront, and very much +displeas'd <a name='Page_63'></a>with himself, that he should +embrace a Monster. <i>Isabella</i> made a hideous Outcry, which +disturb'd the whole Neighbourhood, but the Count sending for an +experienc'd Surgeon, to prevent the Effusion of too great a +Quantity of Blood, it issuing out with great violence, kept her at +his House all Night, and sent her the next Morning in a Chair to +her Companion.</p> + +<p><i>Isabella</i> was a considerable Time before she recover'd of +this great Wound, but at length growing well, and <i>Diana</i> +having very much suffer'd by her extravagant Frolicks, they liv'd +together as Man and Wife (being now better qualified for it) a +considerable Space, 'till on a Time they had a very great Quarrel, +which occasion'd a Separation; and <i>Diana</i> reviving her former +Diversions, met at last with the same Fate as <i>Isabella</i>, her +masculine Instrument being likewise sever'd from her Privities, +after which, both of them liv'd to be harmless old Women. <a name= +'Page_64'></a>These Intrigues being very remarkable, I thought fit +to insert them for the Entertainment of the curious Reader; I now +proceed to the Nature and Generation of Hermaphrodites.</p> + +<center><img src="images/deco3.gif" width="68" height="80" alt= +"deco3" border="0"><br> +<br> +<img src="images/bar4.gif" width="558" height="74" alt="bar4" +border="0"></center> + +<a name= +'Of_the_material_Cause_and_Generation_of_Hermaphrodites'></a> + +<h2><i>Of the material Cause and Generation of</i> +Hermaphrodites</h2> + +<br> + + +<p>There are several Reasons assign'd by Naturalists for the Cause +and Production of Hermaphrodites. Some are of Opinion that +Hermaphrodites <a name='Page_65'></a>are form'd whilst the Terms +are upon Women, which being always impure, they can produce nothing +but Monsters; but to this it may be answer'd, that when Children +are conceived during the Sowing of the Terms, there is a greater +probability of their being born with the Itch, or other scorbutick +Distempers, than of their being Hermaphrodites.</p> + +<p>Others believe, that the Man and the Woman having equally +contributed to Generation, the forming Power which endeavours to +render the Matter whereon it works like unto those it came from, +imprints the Characters of Man and Woman upon it: And that some +have been able to engender in a double Capacity, as to have a Child +with one Breast resembling that of a Woman, and the other that of a +Man; but this Opinion is very fabulous, for the uniting Faculty, +which is the Effect of the Soul, is not capable of making such very +great Differe<a name='Page_66'></a>nces; and Generation being +accomplish'd, thro' the Fermentation of the Seed only, it cannot +separate their Actions after they are mix'd.</p> + +<p>Some Naturalists tell us, that where Nature design'd Seed in the +Womb for a Male only, (as working up for the best, and aiming at +the highest Perfection of its Workmanship) too much Cold and +Moisture accidentally falling into the Work, before it is perfected +in the Womb, at the same time there being too great a quantity of +Seed and menstrous Blood, what was intended for Man in part +degenerates, and renders the Infant of a double Sex or Nature, +placing it in the middle of both Sexes, as seeming to participate +of Male and Female.</p> + +<p>Others say. That Nature having always a particular care of the +Propagation of Mankind, endeav<a name='Page_67'></a>ours for the +most part to produce Females: And thus we may observe, the Number +of Men Hermaphrodites to exceed the Women ones, Nature having +chalk'd out to the first the Lines of a Woman's privy Parts. To +this Opinion it is objected, that Nature being nothing but the +Power of God in the production of Creatures, it never works but +according to his Orders upon the Matter that is given the Female; +and of consequence Hermaphrodites depend more upon the Disposition +of the Matter for Generation, than upon any previous Design of +Nature.</p> + +<p>Some are of Opinion, that God having created Man and Woman, we +have essentially within us a Faculty to become either the one Sex +or the other; for which Reason it is no wonder if an Hermaphrodite +is sometimes produc'd, since we are potentially so. This Notion is +drawn from <i>Plato</i>; and though some part of the Scripture may +at first seem to favour it, yet, strictly consider'd, one may find +a quite different Sense; an<a name='Page_68'></a>d this Opinion was +condemn'd by Pope <i>Innocent</i> III.</p> + +<p>The Ancients were of Opinion, that there is a certain Cell in +the Womb of some Women, into which the Seed falling, when +<i>Mercury</i> and <i>Venus</i>, or <i>Mercury</i> and <i>Luna</i> +are in Conjunction, an Hermaphrodite is engender'd; or that the +Conjunction of <i>Mars</i> and <i>Venus</i> disposes the Matter +that serves for the forming of the Child so confusedly in the +Mother's Womb, that it becomes the Cause of the Birth of an +Hermaphrodite. In answer to this, those Planets are too remote from +us to be the proximate Causes, and to have an absolute Influence on +the Body of the Child that is forming in its Mother's Womb; and +admitting such a Conjunction might cause a Deformity, it would not +appear however in two Hermaphrodites born at different Seasons: But +in <i>Turkey</i>, and other Eastern Countries, where these Planets +have the greatest Influence, Hermaphrodites are mor<a name= +'Page_69'></a>e numerous than in the Western Parts of the World, +and they are oblig'd to go in different Habits from other People +(<i>viz</i>. with Cloaths partly belonging to Men and partly Women) +to prevent their lying with any; and if they go without these +Habits they are punish'd severely.</p> + +<p>These are the various Opinions of curious Naturalists; but to +proceed to other Particulars which are more probable, we must more +nicely examine the Nature of the Seed to find out the cause of the +Confusion of Sexes. The Seed is for the most part indifferent as to +the two Sexes, and if it happens to meet with a Ball or Egg in the +Horns of the Womb that is full of Spirits, and includes a hot, dry, +and close Matter, it will impregnate so as to produce a Boy; but if +the Seed meets with a Ball or Egg, not hot nor dry or fill'd with +Spirits, tho'<a name='Page_70'></a> it will animate it, yet 'tis +with less strength, so as a Girl will be produc'd. And if the +Matter contain'd in another Ball, is exactly temper'd in its +Quantities, and equal in its parts, so as there is no Predominancy, +the Seed of the Man by its superior Power will determine this +matter for a Boy or a Girl: But if a Man's Seed dispos'd to +determine the temperate Seed of a Woman to one of the two Sexes has +not a sufficient quantity of Spirits to effect it, and the Seed of +the Woman prevails for the contrary Sex, then an Hermaphrodite is +form'd, who has relation to one and the other according to the +different Endeavours of the animated Seed of the Man or Woman.</p> + +<p>The Intelligence whose Business it is to compose the little Body +of Hermaphrodites, is very much disturb'd to meet with a Matter +that is intractable for the regular forming of the Genital Parts. +<a name='Page_71'></a>On one side the Matter is moist and loose, on +the other close and dry; here 'tis hot and there 'tis cold. This +Matter is so different and consists of such rebellious Particles, +that 'tis impossible to manage it, and the quantity of Matter is so +small that it is destitute of Heat, without which the Intelligence +cannot perfectly form all parts of the Body. If the Matter turns to +a Male, he will be too dull and too cold to Engender, and will be +imperfect in his privy Parts; if it proves a Female, she will in +time be of too hot and dry a Nature, and will be Deficient of +Organs for the Seed and menstruous Blood, in order to Form and +Nourish a Child.</p> + +<p>This Intelligence, or the immortal Soul that works from the +Beginning, in all probability about the thirty fifth Day begins to +be employ'd in making the privy Parts of a Boy, for which purpose +it lays hold on the Matter at first Elected for that end, and which +it put in the first place, where the privy Parts ought to be. This +being don<a name='Page_72'></a>e, it works continually, but wanting +Matter to perfect the privy Parts, it borrows of the Neighbouring +Parts, chusing rather to render others Disfigur'd, than to be +wanting in the compleat Forming of the Parts that must serve for +Generation.</p> + +<p>But when there is not Matter enough to Form the genital Parts of +a Boy, the oeconomy of the Intelligence Husbands it and places and +disposes all things so well for the perfect forming of the Parts +that 'tis not to be express'd, but the situation is inward, as +wanting Heat and Strength of Matter to push them out, after this +the Intelligence proceeds in the Forming of the privy Parts of +those Hermaphrodites who are counted Girls, but are really Boys. +These seem to Change Sexes, and in time come to be Men, and Marry, +and get Children. The natural and genital Heat<a name= +'Page_73'></a> increasing daily, pushes out the privy Parts about +the Age of fifteen, twenty, or twenty five, 'till which time they +lie hidden. These must be at full Age before they are able to +Caress a Woman; and where after the coming out or the privy Parts +they Copulate, it will be a hard matter for them to Engender, being +in their Nature Cold.</p> + +<p>As the Intelligence wants Matter for the Forming of the privy +Parts of the three first sorts of Hermaphrodites, so there is more +than there is occasion for in the fourth. About the forty fifth +Day, the Intelligence being at a loss how to place the Matter it +has receiv'd for the Amorous Parts, determines at last to make the +<i>Clotoris</i> bigger and longer than ordinary, and to leave to +the inward genital Parts of a Girl a natural Figure, that they may +one Day serve for Generation. These sorts of Hermaphrodites as I +have already observ'd, have frequently pass'd f<a name= +'Page_74'></a>or Men, being in reality nothing but Women.</p> + +<p>But in short, the Intelligence must accomplish its Work, of what +Matter soever it be; it begins to work, and will without doubt make +Parts in some measure determin'd to either Sex, provided the matter +be not so unequal, and of such a different Complexion as to make it +impossible to effect it, when it Forms an Hermaphrodite, and +sometimes a Monster that is neither Man nor Woman, as having no +privy Parts, either of the one or the other.</p> + +<center><img src="images/bar5.gif" width="583" height="86" alt= +"bar5" border="0"></center> + +<br> + + +<h2><i>Of unnatural Births; Monsters, and extraordinary +Conceptions.</i></h2> + +<br> + + +<p>Hermaphrodites being Monsters in Nature, it is no more than what +may be reasonably expected that my Account of their Generation, +should be follow'd with some very<a name='Page_75'></a> +extraordinary unnatural Births, monstrous Productions of another +Kind, and wonderful Conceptions.</p> + +<p>The Heathen Philosophers, were so prejudic'd to the Opinion of +Woman's being an imperfect Animal, (alledging that Nature always +propos'd to herself the Generation of Males as being the most +accomplish'd piece of Workmanship;) that they look'd upon Woman as +a Monster in Nature; but the Scriptures teach us, that Man and +Woman are equally perfect in their Kind, and Nature cannot be +suppos'd to produce more Monsters than perfect Beings, which must +be the Case, if this Opinion were allow'd, Women being more +numerous than the Men.</p> + +<p>Monsters are deprav'd Conceptions, defin'd by the Ancients to be +excursions of Nature, and are always Vicious<a name='Page_76'></a>, +either in Figure, Situation, Magnitude, or Number. When they bear +the resemblance of a Beast, they are said to be vicious in Figure; +when the Parts are disproportion'd, as that one Part is too big for +the other; (which is a thing very common by reason of some +Excrescence) they are vicious in Magnitude; if the Ears were on the +Face, or the Eyes on the Breast, &c. as was seen in a Monster +born at <i>Revanna</i> in <i>Italy</i>, in the Year 1570, They are +vicious in Situation, and when having two Heads or four Hands, and +two Bodies join'd, as had a Monster born at <i>Zarzara</i> in the +Year 1540, they are vicious in Number.</p> + +<p>In the Reign of <i>Henry</i> the 3d, there was a Woman deliver'd +of a Child, having two Heads, four Arms, and two Bodies which were +join'd down to the Navel. The Heads were so plac'd that they look'd +contrary <a name='Page_77'></a>ways. It was the Female Sex, and +both Heads would speak, laugh and cry; and both Eat and be Hungry +together, but there was but one Fundament to disburden Nature; +sometimes one would Speak, and the other would keep silence, and +sometimes both speak at the same time. It liv'd several Years, but +one of them surviving the other, it carried the Dead one so long, +that at last it fainted with the Burden. And at a Village call'd +<i>Ubaten</i> in <i>Flanders</i>, a Child was Born which had two +Heads and four Arms, appearing like two Maids joyn'd together, +having two Arms lifted up between and above the Heads, the Thighs +being plac'd as it were cross one another.</p> + +<p>In the Year 1579, A Monster was Born in <i>France</i>, cover'd +all over with Hair like a Beast, its Navel being in the place where +his Nose should have been, his Eyes plac'd in the Situation of the +Mouth; and its Mouth <a name='Page_78'></a>was in the Chin. It was +of the Male-kind, and liv'd but a few Days, affrighting all that +beheld it. And near <i>Elselling</i> in <i>Germany</i>, in the Year +1529, there was a Boy Born with one Head and one Body, having four +Ears, four Arms, and four Feet, and but two Thighs, and two Legs: +This Birth, in the Opinion of the Learned, proceeded from a +Redundancy of Seed beyond what was sufficient for one Child, but +not enough for Twins, wherefore Nature Form'd what she could. There +might be many other particular Instances given of Monstrous Births, +as some sticking together by the Bellies, others by the Breech; +some Born without Arms or Legs others without Heads, yet have they +liv'd for some time, till want of Sustenance made them pine away +and Die, as having no place to receive it, and others with Heads +like Dogs, Wolves, Bears, and other Beasts. But I shall proceed to +the cause of their Generation.</p> + +<a name='Page_79'></a> + +<p>The Natural Cause of Generation of Monsters, according to the +Ancients, is either in the Matter, or in the Agent; in the Seed or +in the Womb: The Matter may be unable to perform its Office two +ways; by Defect, or by Excess: By Defect, when a Child hath but one +Arm, or one Leg, &c. and by Excess, when it hath three Hands or +two Heads. The Agent or Womb may be in Fault several ways, as in +the forming Faculty, which may be too strong or too weak, by which +a deprav'd Figure is oftentimes produc'd, the ill Conformation of +the place of Conception will cause a Monstrous Birth; and the +imaginative Power at the time of Conception, is so forcible, that +it stamps a Character of the thing upon the Child; so that the +Child of an Adulteress, by the strength of Imagination may have a +nearer resemblance of her Husband, than of the Person who begat it. +And some Histories me<a name='Page_80'></a>ntion, that through this +Imaginative Faculty, a Woman at the time of Conception, beholding +the Picture of a Blackamoor, produc'd a Child resembling an +Æthiopian.</p> + +<p>Monsters are sometimes Engender'd by unseasonable amorous +Embraces, as when a Man enters on the Pleasures of Venus at a time +as the monthly Flowings are upon his Wife; For this being against +Nature, it is no wonder that it should produce an unnatural +Offspring. If therefore a Man's desire be never so great for +Copulation at such a time, yet the Woman ought not to admit of his +Embraces; the issue of those unclean Embraces proving often +Monstrous, or dull and heavy, and Defective in their +Understandings.</p> + +<p>Sometimes by a <a name='Page_81'></a>corruption of Seed, +Monstrous Shapes are form'd, which by some is ascrib'd to the bad +Influence of the Planets, that were predominant at the time of +Conception; and sometimes the straightness of the Womb is attended +with many Inconveniencies, for Nature not having sufficient room to +frame her Work in, the Child is rumpled up, which occasions some to +have hump'd Backs, crooked Arms, and Legs, round Shoulders, Wry +Necks, and the like.</p> + +<p>The divine Cause of these Monstrous Generations, proceeds from +the permissive Will of our Great Creator, who many times suffers +Parents to bring forth such Deform'd Creatures as a Punishment for +their Lust: And some Authors are of Opinion, that outward deformity +of Body is generally a Sign of the Pollution of the Heart, as a +Curse upon the Child for the Incontinency of the Parents.</p> + +<a name='Page_82'></a> + +<p>In the Writings of some Authors mention is made of Monsters +engender'd by infernal Spirits; and as the Scriptures give us to +understand that the Angels being taken with the Beauty of the +Daughters of Men, went in unto them, and that from such a +Conjunction, Giants were Born, so we may infer that if Angels can +mix Amorously with Women, and engender Children, the Devils who +only differ from Angels by their Fall, may also draw Women into +immodest Pleasures, and Defile them with their Embraces: But it is +highly inconsistent to suppose that our Creator who is all Purity, +would permit the worst of Spirits to propogate his diabolical +Offspring.</p> + +<p>Devils assuming to themselves Human Shapes, in the opinion of +Ancient Writers, may abuse both Men and Women, and with wicked +People use carnal Copulati<a name='Page_83'></a>on. St. +<i>Austin</i> yields to this Notion, and that Generation may +thereby be effected; but his Opinion was grounded more upon the +depositions of Melancholly superstitious Persons, than from any +demonstrable Proofs; and 'tis impossible that such an unnatural +Conjunction can produce a humane Creature, though some will have it +that it may, and that his Malice shall be a Sign of his +Extraction.</p> + +<p>The <i>Rabbins</i> beleived that the <i>Silvani</i>, <i>Pans</i> +and <i>Fauni</i>, call'd <i>Incubus's</i> and the <i>Tutelar</i> +Gods, were Creatures left imperfect the first <i>Friday</i> +Evening, and not finish'd by God, as being prevented by the ensuing +Sabbath; for this reason they alledg'd, these Spirits love +Mountains and dark Places only, and never appear but in the Night +time: And the <i>Incubus's</i> not only Court and desire to Caress +Women, but have actually Caress'd them.</p> + +<p><i>Hiere<a name='Page_84'></a>nimus Cardanus</i> writes of a +Maid which was got with Child by a Devil, she thinking it had been +a fair young Man who had Enjoy'd her; and some Witches fancy they +have been at the Sabbath, and Caress'd by the Devil, whose Privy +Parts were full of Bristles, Scaly, and the Seed cold as Ice; but +this has proceeded only from a distracted Brain: Besides we learn +from Scripture that Devils being pure Spirits, are quite different +Substances from those of Men. That they have neither Flesh nor +Blood, nor Privities, and consequently no Seed for Generation. That +though they sometimes assume Bodies, these Bodies are only form'd +of Air, and do not Live, neither can they exercise the Operations +of Life: That having no occasion to hope for Posterity, as being +Eternal and Unhappy, they cannot be suppos'd to be desirous of +perpetuating their Species or to take pleasure in the Embraces of +Women.</p> + +<a name='Page_85'></a> + +<p>The Stories of Women having Commerce with Devils, are very +Fabulous, and proceed chiefly from Dreams and Nocturnal Illusions; +a Lecherous and Melancholly Woman seiz'd with the Night Mare, may +verily beleive that the Devil Caresses her; especially if her Fancy +is taken up with Tales of Witches. <i>Leo Africanus</i> tells us, +That what is attributed to Devils, is committed by Lascivious Men, +and Lecherous Women, who perswade others, that they are Caress'd by +Devils. The Witches of the Kingdom of <i>Fez</i>, according to +History, are very desirous that People should beleive them to be +familiar with Devils, and for that Reason endeavour to tell +surprizing Stories to those that consult them; they do not require +any Fees from handsome Women that come to see them, but only +intimate the Desire their Master has to Ca<a name= +'Page_86'></a>ress them for a Night. The Husbands take these +Impostures for Truth, and surrender their Wives to the Gods and the +Winds. Night being come, the brawny Sorcerer (who Employs the +Persons abovemention'd, to ensnare fine Women to his Caresses) +Embraces the fair one closely, and Enjoys her instead of the Devil. +If this Ignorance and Superstition prevail'd in this Kingdom, I +doubt not but it would very much Pleasure the frolicking +Libertines.</p> + +<center><img src="images/bar6.gif" width="578" height="56" alt= +"bar6" border="0"></center> + +<a name='Extraordinary_Conceptions'></a> + +<h2><i>Extraordinary Conceptions</i>.</h2> + +<br> + + +<p>Before I begin to trace any Particulars of extraordinary +Conceptions, I shall insert a surprizing Account of a Woman that +went Twenty five Years with Child, from the Writings of Monsieur +<i>Baile</i>, which contains a great deal of Variety relating to +untimely Generations.</p> + +<a name='Page_87'></a> + +<p><i>Margaret Matthieu</i> a <i>Cloth-worker</i>'s Wife at +<i>Tholouse</i> in <i>France</i>, in the Year 1653, and towards the +Ninth Month of her Reckoning, had the Pains of Woman's Labour upon +her at Church; and some part of the Waters being already voided, +she acquainted the People about her, that she fear'd she should be +Deliver'd in the Church. Immediately she was carried to a +Neighbouring House, and her Pains abating upon the Relief she there +met with, she was afterwards convey'd Home, where her Pains +return'd with more Violence than before. Upon this, Doctor +<i>Cartier</i>, and Doctor <i>Mulatier</i> two famous Physicians, +and Mr. <i>Cortade</i> a very skilful Surgeon were sent for, and +endeavour'd, tho' in vain, to give her Relief. She continued for +two Months under the torture of these violent Pains, and voided +Clots of Blood <a name='Page_88'></a>without Fibres or any carnous +Matter. Afterwards she voided a white Humour, that was sometimes +tinctur'd with Blood; and her Breasts were fill'd with an +extraordinary quantity of Milk. About the Fifth Month the Flux of +the Blood ceas'd, and she recover'd her Strength by Degrees, being +still incommoded with a troublesome Load in Her Belly, and never +easy but when she lay upon her Reins.</p> + +<p>From the Year 1653 till the Year 1678, she suffer'd now and then +as violent Pains as those of Child-birth. When they attack'd her +most severely, she entreated the Surgeon to rip up her Belly, and +so put an end to her Misery. She was troubled with frequent +Swoonings, and unaccountable Longings for certain sorts of Aliment. +Some of the Women about her affirm'd, that they saw the Child move +several times; but the Surgeon and the Apothecary, who observ'd her +very narrowly, and were frequently call'd, could never perceive any +other Motion t<a name='Page_89'></a>han that which attended the +Mother's turning from one side to the other; for then the Lump fell +to the side upon which she lay.</p> + +<p>During this space of time, which was Twenty five Years and some +Months, this Woman had several fits of Sickness, and at last died +of a continual Fever, in <i>January</i> 1678, being in the Sixty +second Year of her Age.</p> + +<p>The next Day after she was Dead, Mr. <i>Cortade</i>, open'd her +Corps, in the presence of Monsieurs <i>Gaillart</i>, <i>Baile</i>, +<i>Laborde</i> and <i>Grangeron</i> all famous Physicians; and of +Mr. <i>Labat</i> and <i>Corboneau</i>, two noted Anatomists. Having +cut up the Muscles, and the <i>Peritonæum</i>, they found the +Cawl schirous, and somewhat carnous, and about two Fingers breadth +thick. 'Twas stretched over the Mass they sought for and a<a name= +'Page_90'></a>dher'd to it. When they lifted it up, they turn'd +over the whole Heap, towards the Breast of the Deceas'd Person, and +then they had some Apprehension that the shapeless Mass was a +Child: At first View they doubted it, because 'twas found out of +the Womb, but their Doubts were quickly dispell'd, when they put a +Knife into it and felt the Bones, and saw Nails and Toes upon one +of the Feet, that they separated from the Mass.</p> + +<p>Before they meddled further with the Mass, they had a mind to +see what Condition the parts of the <i>Abdomen</i> were in, and +particularly the Womb, upon which they found a Body, which being +hard like a Stone, enclos'd a great Ulcer that spread its self over +the Bottom of the Womb. Upon the Womb side it had a Cavity full of +white and thick <i>Pus</i>, without any noisome Smell. On the +Opposite Side 'twas hollow, and resembled the convex Side of an +Oister.<a name='Page_91'></a> The rest of the Womb was in its +Natural State, and they met with no considerable Accident in the +Neighbouring parts.</p> + +<p>They cut out the Mass, and carried it to the Surgeon's House, to +be view'd at their leisure. The whole Mass was encompass'd with a +callous Matter, under which they found all the Parts of a Child +harden'd and half putrified; and these weigh'd Eight Pound. They +cut up all the <i>Viscera</i> in the three Cavities, the +particulars whereof may be read in Mr. <i>Baile</i>'s Book of +Anatomy. This is the Account given by Mr. <i>Baile</i>. I come now +to extraordinary Conceptions.</p> + +<p>Some Authors affirm, that a young Man having spilt some Seed in +a Bath, a Girl afterwards Bathing in the same Water, the Seed was +suck'd in by the Girls Womb, and<a name='Page_92'></a> she became +with Child. But Monsieur <i>Dionis</i> is not of this Opinion: He +will not allow the Womb an attractive Faculty, so as to suck up +from the outer Extremity of the Neck, and oblige it to repair to +its Cavity. And the Seed being a Liquor, would be so blended with +the Water, that 'tis impossible all its particles should rally, and +continue their Activity and prolifick Quality, till their Arrival +in the Womb.</p> + +<p>And the History reported by <i>Riolanus</i> favours the Opinion +against those who maintain that Generation may be perform'd by +shedding of the Seed on the Cabia of a Woman's Privities. The +<i>Vagina</i> of the Woman mention'd by this Writer, was shut up +with Scars after a troublesome Child-birth, to such a Degree as +only to leave a small Hole for the passage of the Terms and Urine, +through which also pass'd the Husband's Seed that got her with +Child; this might not hinder these two Persons from Copulating +strictly; nay, there must have bee<a name='Page_93'></a>n a strict +Alliance and the Womb, by contracting of the Passage, must in this +Case have drawn the Seed as greedily as an hungry Stomach attracts +the Victuals by the Mouth.</p> + +<p>Some Persons have believ'd that a Woman may Engender, without +the Application of a Man's Privities. They tell us of a Woman that +was got with Child in the Embraces of her She-Companion, who but a +little before came from her Husband's Arms: And of a young Woman +that was found Breeding by no other Cause than her Father's having +by chance Polluted himself in the same Bed where she was: But these +Stories seem to be contriv'd to cover the Lasciviousness of Women, +and conceal the Vice of an impure Love.</p> + +<p>There is a Story in some Authors, that having put Human Seed +into a Viol close stopp<a name='Page_94'></a>'d, and plac'd it for +some time in a Dunghill that was moderately hot; they observ'd that +the Particles drew up themselves in such Order, as to assume the +Form of a Child. This (say they) comes to pass after the same +manner as the Forming of a Chick in an Egg, which requires only a +temperate Heat to Hatch it. But they agree, that 'twas impossible +to Nourish this Infant, which according to them, perish'd before +'twas intirely Form'd. If this Observation were true, it would make +us believe that the whole Matter of which the Child is Form'd +proceeds from the Man. But this Story wants Confirmation, as does +likewise the following Relation Communicated in a Letter by Mr. +<i>Donat</i> Surgeon to the Army in <i>Italy</i>, relating to a +Man's Conception.</p> + +<p><i>I am at this very time employ'd in tending a Person of +Quality that's come a g<a name='Page_95'></a>reat way off. In the +right Side of his</i> Scrotum <i>he had a great Lump, bigger than +the Head of a Child; which I cut off, and afterwards ty'd up the +Spermatick Artery. This Lump was a Mass of Flesh, all over +Spermatick, and very Solid, with very hard Bones in every part. +'Twas contain'd in an After-birth with a great deal of Water. The +Spermatick Vessels which perform'd the Office of those we call +Umbilical, were overgrown much beyond their Natural size. The +Circumstances that occasion'd this Generation, confirms the Effect +that follow'd. In</i> June <i>last, the Gentleman us'd a great deal +of Liberty with a certain Lady, without coming to actual Enjoyment; +upon which he was seiz'd with a cutting pain in the right Testicle, +which after two Hours became insensible. In process of time a +Tumour rose by degrees, which was joined to the Testicle, and was +as big as a</i> Turkey'<i>Egg. The 8th of</i> December<a name= +'Page_96'></a> <i>last, this Gentleman came hither incognito; but +put off the Operation 'till this time, by reason of the cold +Season. In the mean time the Swelling increas'd so much, that +the</i> Scrotum <i>being uncapable of a greater Extension; it +reach'd all over the Groin, and I had a great deal of trouble in +tying the Spermatick Vessels at Rings of the Abdomen. This is an +Experiment that shews, that the whole Substance of Man is contain'd +in the Male Seed; and that Women furnish only the Vessel, and the +Substance of Growth and Nourishment. I have preserv'd this +Production to justify the Truth of my Assertion.</i></p> + +<p>Donat.</p> + +<p>Sisteron, <i>May</i> the 3d. 1697.</p> + +<p>FINIS.</p> + +<center><img src="images/deco4.gif" width="288" height="249" alt= +"deco4" border="0"></center> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13569 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/13569-h/images/bar1.gif b/13569-h/images/bar1.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..14fa232 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/bar1.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/bar2.gif b/13569-h/images/bar2.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8c1948 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/bar2.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/bar3.gif b/13569-h/images/bar3.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebe7ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/bar3.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/bar4.gif b/13569-h/images/bar4.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b81e074 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/bar4.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/bar5.gif b/13569-h/images/bar5.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1335409 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/bar5.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/bar6.gif b/13569-h/images/bar6.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc9cc11 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/bar6.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/deco1.gif b/13569-h/images/deco1.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..979cce0 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/deco1.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/deco2.gif b/13569-h/images/deco2.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a090124 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/deco2.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/deco3.gif b/13569-h/images/deco3.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a97b2c --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/deco3.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/deco4.gif b/13569-h/images/deco4.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..75ed196 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/deco4.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/letp.gif b/13569-h/images/letp.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6fa7a45 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/letp.gif diff --git a/13569-h/images/lett.gif b/13569-h/images/lett.gif Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..61fb860 --- /dev/null +++ b/13569-h/images/lett.gif |
