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[8] See Plate IV., figure 1.

[9] Samuel II., chap. vi., v. 20, 21, 22, 23.

[10] The indispensable and inseparable appendages to the male organ have thus been eulogized by Giov. Francesco Lazzarelli in his poem entitled, La Cicceide, p. 120.

LE PREROGATIVI DE'TESTICOLI.

Gran sostegni dei mondo, almi C ...... Del celeste Fattor, opre ingegnose; Da caricare i piccoli cannoni, Ond' armata va l'uom, Palle focose: Robusti, anchorè teneri Palloni, Con cui guiocan tra lor, mariti e spose; Del corpo uman spermatici Embrioni; De' venerei piacer fonti amorose; Magazzini vitali, ove Natura L'uman seme riposto, a' figli suoi D' assicurar la succession procura! etc.

[11] Genesis, chap. xxiv. v. 2, 3.

[12] Genesis, chap. xlvii. v. 29.

[13] Mémoires sur l'Egypte, publiés pendant les Campagne de _Bonaparte_, Partie, 2, p. 193.

[14] The Latin text of the law is as follows:--"Si mulier stuprata lege cum illo agere velit, membro virili _sinistra prehenso et dextra reliquos sanctorum imposita, juret, super illas quod is per vim se, isto membro, vitiaverit_."--Voyage dans le Département du Finisterre, Tom. iii., p. 233.

[15] Hunc locum tibi dedico consacroque, Priape, Quæ domus tua, Lampsaei est, quaque silva, Priape. Nam te præcipue in suis urbibus colit, ora Hellespontia, cæteris ostreosior oris.--Catullus, Carm. xviii.

[16] See Plate II., figure 2.

[17] From possessing such an article of VIRTU, his Eminence must surely have been of the opinion of Cardinal Bembo--_that there is no sin below the navel_.

[18] Falce minax et parte tui majore, Priape, Ad fontem quæso, dic mihi, qua sit iter.--Priapeia Carm.

[19] See note [21], p. 11.

[20] See S. Augustine, Civ. Dei., lib. 6, cap. 9, and Lactantius _De falsa religione_. lib. I.

[21] See Plate I., figure 4. This phallus was found at Pompeii over a baker's door.

[22] Thus his statue was placed in orchards as a scare-crow to drive away superstitious thieves, as well as children and birds.

Pomarii tutela, diligens _rubro_ Priape, furibus minare mutino.--Priapeia Carm. 73.

[23] Ind. Antiq. ii., p, 361.

[24] Ind. Antiq., vol. I., p. 247.

[25] Voyage dans la Chine par Avril, Liv. iii., p. 194.

[26] Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol. i., p. 269.

[27] Worship of Priapus.

[28] _Ibid._, p 48.

[29] For some ingenious and learned observations on the Tau or Crux Ansata see Classical Journal, No. 39, p. 182.

[30] Chap. ix., v. 3. "And the Lord said unto him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the forehead of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof."

[31] For a description of some of the above-mentioned Crosses, see Plate V., also "_Voyage dans la basse et la haute-Egypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte_, 1802 et 1829," par Denon--Planches 48, 78.

[32] This city was the birth place of the deity Priapus, whose orgies were there constantly celebrated. Alexander the Great, in his Persian expedition, resolved to destroy Lampsacus on account of its many vices, or rather from a jealousy of its adherence to Persia; but it was saved by the artifice of the philosopher Anaxamenes, who, having heard that the king had sworn to refuse whatever he should ask him, begged him to destroy the city.

[33] Journal d'Henri III. par l'Etoile. Tom. 5.

[34] Historie Religieuse du Calendrier, p. 420.

[35] Johannis Goropii Becani, Origines Antwerpianæ, 1569, lib. i., p.p. 26 and 101.

[36] The foreskins, still extant, of the Saviour, are reckoned to be twelve in number. One was in the possession of the monks of Coulombs; another at the Abbey of Charroux; a third at Hildesheim, in Germany; a fourth at Rome, in the Church of St. Jean-de-Latran; a fifth at Antwerp; a sixth at Puy-en-Velay, in the Church of Notre Dame, &c., &c. So much for relics!

[37] Dulaure, Singularités Historiques de l'Historie de Paris, p. 77. Paris, 1825.

[38] Letter of Sir W. Hamilton prefixed to Payne Knight's "Worship of Priapus."

For a representation of the ancient, _Ex voto_, in silver, the size of the original see Plate VI., figure 1. It is copied from an additional plate inserted by M. Panizzi, late librarian of the British Museum, in the fly-leaf of Payne Knight's "_Worship of Phallus_."

[39] To these the canon law adds sorcery, ligature or point-tying.

[40] Zachais, Quæst. medico. leg. lib. II., tit. I, quæst. I.

[41] See _Lectures on Comparative Anatomy_ by Sir Everard Home, Bart. Vol. III., p. 166. London 1823.

[42] Lib. I., Epigram. 91.

[43] Juvenal Sat. I., vv. 204, 105.

[44] Orlando Furioso, Can. I, stanz. 49, 60.

[45] Rapport, Tom. I., p. 335.

[46] Sir Charles Morgan, Philos. of Morals, p. 25.

[47] Nosographie philosophique.

[48] Medical Essays published by a society in Edinburgh, vol. I., p. 270. Case reported by W. Cockburn, M.D.

[49] Rapport, tome II., p. 422.

[50] Essays, Book I., chap. xx. Cotton's translation.

[51] Hippocrates de Aer: aqua et loco, 210.

[52] Treatise on the Venereal Disease.

[53] Comment. de Aer: aqua et loco, 210.

[54] Voltaire, Pucelle d'Orléans, Chant. xii.

[55] Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords.

[56] Herodotus Enterpe clxxxii.

[57] De Legibus, lib. ii.

[58] Ecologa viii.

[59] Amor., lib. iii., Eleg. 6.

[60] De Asino Aureo, lib. ii., v. 3.

[61] Tacitus Annal., lib. iv., 22.

[62] Lib. v., Sentent, tit. 23.

[63] De rebus gestis Francorum, lib. 4. cap. 94.

[64] Histoire des Français.

[65] Nominated to the Bishopric of Evreux by Henry IV. of France. His favourite authors were Rabelais and Montaigne.

[66] Demonologie, 1603, Book I., Chap. III., p. 12.

[67] "Hercules, puer, L. Virgines, una nocte, gravidus reddit."--Cœlius, lib. 14, cap. 8.

[68] Traité premier de la dissolution de Mariage pour l'impuissance et froideur de l'homme, ou de la Femme, par Antoine Hotman, p. 63.

[69] Tableau de l'Amour considéré dans l'état du Mariage, par II., chap. 2, art. 3.

[70] Art. Portugal. rem. F.

[71] Boileau Despréaux, Satires, Satire VIII.

[72] Willick's Lectures on Diet and Regimen, p. 538, et seq.

[73] From [Greek: mandra], relating to cattle, and [Greek: agaron], baneful, injurious.

[74] Genesis, Chap. xxx., v. 14, 15, 16, 17. The last verse must be considered as decisive of the efficacy of the mandrake.

[75] Solomon's Song, chap. vii. v. 13.

[76] See the word _Dudaïm_, in Dr. Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature. The learned doctor has given a sketch of the plant Mandragora, a copy of which the reader will find in plate VI.

[77] Onkelos was a celebrated rabbin contemporary with St. Paul, and to whom the Targum, that is, a translation or paraphrase of the Holy Scriptures, is attributed.

[78] Lib. IV., cap. 76.

[79] Quoted by Oct. Celsius in his "_Hierobotanicon_," Part I., par. 5. art. _Dudaim_, from Epiphan: Physiolog. c. 4.

[80] Pliny's "Natural History," Vol. IV., p. 397 (Bohn's Classical Library).

[81] Columella _De hortorum Cultu._, v. 19, 20.

[82] See a manuscript Interrogatory still preserved in the "Bibliothèque Nationale," Fonds de Baluze, Rouleau 5.

[83] See "_De l'imposture des Diables_," par Jacques Grévin, Tom. IV., p. 359.

[84] From Weir "De Mag: demonia:" Cours Complet d'agriculture par l'Abbé Rosier, Tom. VI., p. 401.

[85] Récollections des choses merveilleuses Advenues en notre temps par George Chastelain, Edition de Coustelier, p. 150.

[86] Lettres d'Amabed, Vol. XXXIV., p. 261. Edition Beuchot, Paris.

[87] Mandragola, Atto II. Scena 6. See also La Fontaine's tale of "La Mandragore," founded upon the above comedy.

[88] See Warburton on Shakespear's Othello, Act I.,