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1m APANEGYRICK not, but it is that Member of our Body which is fo odd and uncouth as can fcarce be mentioned without a Smile. This Part, I fay, is that Fountain of Life, from which originally fpring all Things in a truer Senfe than from the Elemental Seminary. Add to this, what Man would be fo filly as to run his Head into the Collar of a Matrimonial Nooſe, if (as wife Men are wont to do) he had beforehand duly confider’d the Inconveniences of a Wedded Life ? Or indeed what Woman would open her Arms to receive the Embraces of a Husband, if Me did but forecaft the Pangs of Child-birth, and the Plague of being a Nurfe 2 Since then you owe your Birth to the Bride-bed, and (what was Preparatory to that) the Solemnizing of Marriageto my Waiting-woman Madneſs, you cannot but acknowledge how much you are indebted to me. Befide, thofe who had once dearly bought the Experience of their Folly, would never reengage themfelves in the fame Intanglement by a Second Match, if it were not occafion’d by the Forgetfulnefs of patt Dangers. And Yenus herfelf (whatever Lucretius pretends to the contrary) cannot deny, but that, without my Affiftance, her Procreative Power would prove weak and ineffe@ual. It was from my fportive and tickling Recreation that proceeded the Old Crabbed Philofophers, and thofe who now fuppiy their Stead, the mortified Monks and Friars ; as alfo Kings Priefts, and Popes, nay, the whole Tribe of Po. etick Gods, who are at laft grown fo numeTous, as in the Camp of Heaven (though ne’er
