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Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.

John Bulwer

Date:: 1653

Credit: Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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52P AN • APPENDIX, Exhibiting the Tedigree of the EngJifb Gallant. >on the Relation of this intended Practical! Aletamorphojir, I per¬ ceived that all men thought me to 3e neceffarily ingaged to touch upon the transformation and deformity of Apparell; the thing offering it felfefo naturally, every Scene almolf affording fome emergent occafion or o- therforfuchaDifcourfe. Which conceit, I con- feffe, I had admitted, but that I defired to keep clofe to my proper Argument. A little therefore to anfwer expectation, I thought good to annex this Appendix, wherein I- fhalf a little explaine* this Proverbe, God makes ^and the Tailor (]japes. Freely to deliver my opinion of this vanity of Apparell, I conceive it to be the fame itch, and the fame fpirit of Contradiction and Phantaifi- calneffe working in the Children of vanity, and the fame abufe put upon Nature5 only a tergo; Z z z 2 bcin

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