"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."
Jeremy Taylor, "Discourse I, Of nursing children in imitation of the Blessed Virgin-Mother" 9, The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution. Described in the history of the life and death of the ever blessed Jesus Christ, the saviour of the world. With considerations and discourses upon the several parts of the story, and prayers fitted to the several mysteries ([London]: R. N. for Francis Ash, 1649), 36. This occurs also on pp. 35-36 of vol. 2 of the standard Whole works of 1822. I was put on to this by Diarmaid McCulloch, The Reformation: a history (New York: Viking, 2003), 629.
