The mysteries of conjugal love reveal'd / written in French by Nicholas de Venette. Done into English [and abridged] by a gentleman.

  • Nicolas Venette
Date:
1712
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Credit: The mysteries of conjugal love reveal'd / written in French by Nicholas de Venette. Done into English [and abridged] by a gentleman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blame, who has made a great Volume of the tnoft iecret matters that pal’s between marry’d Perfoiis. Neither would St. Auftin, Sr, Gregory of Nice^ nor lertulhm be perus’d, who ipeak of Conju¬ gal Love in terms I durft not Tranflate but by Paraphrasing. And one would fuoprefs the Book of the Secrets of Women, wherein Al¬ bert as Magnus fets forth a great many means to provoke to Love. Inline, the Books or Phy.fr cians and Anatomifts ought not to be feen, if the Complaints above recited were juft and rea¬ sonable. If a Man tells me that this Book might pals well enough were it written in Latin, that it might not fall into the Hands of the Vulgar, but abide among the Learned. I aniwer, this Objection is of no force, feeing thofe that are Matters of foreign Tongues and Languages, do not rule their Paflions better, but rather for the moft part are more effeminate and voluptuous than others. A Man may read Books of Phylick, Anatomy and Midwifery with Fi¬ gures, prfoiledg’d by the State. He may eve¬ ry where meet St. Iwbert*s Book of Vulgar Er¬ rors, wherein he treats of the A&ion of the Parts of both Sexes, and was fo bold as to dedi¬ cate it to Margaret of Navarre,Henry the Great’s Ciandmothes , as alio that of Amhroje Paurreus and Du Laurens which treats of Generation, and tnat of Mr. Mar hem which fpeaks of Child- births with Figures [Tranflated into Enghlh by Doctor Chambetlain] that' feem lewd and im- nGdeii, A certain Book shat treats of the Paf- ttons pi Ai
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