Saturday, January 12, 2019

Those "two exuberant fontinells"


"why hath nature given to Women two exuberant fontinells, which, like two Roes that are twinnes, feed among the Lilies, and drop milk like dew from Hermon, and hath invited that nourishment from the secret recesses, where the infant dwelt at first, up to the breast where naturally now the childe is cradled in the entertainments of love and maternall embrances; but that nature, having removed the Babe, and carried its meat after it, intends that it should be preserved by the matter and ingredients of its constitution, and have the same diet prepared with a more mature and proportionable digestion?  If nature intended them not for nourishment, I am sure it lesse intended them for pride and wantonnesse; they are needlesse excrescencies and vices of nature, unlesse employed in natures work and proper intendment."

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