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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 men¬
tioned 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 before¬
hand 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 Wait¬
ing-woman Madneſs, you cannot but acknow¬
ledge how much you are indebted to me.
Befide, thofe who had once dearly bought the
Experience of their Folly, would never re¬
engage 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, with¬
out 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 mor¬
tified Monks and Friars ; as alfo Kings
Priefts, and Popes, nay, the whole Tribe of Po.
etick Gods, who are at laft grown fo nume¬
Tous, as in the Camp of Heaven (though
ne’er