Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
_Prefaces now a Days are rather Apologies for the Works to which they are prefix'd, than written for Instruction; and generally a ludicrous Scene is expected, if the Performance be of an airy Nature; or, if not, at least an introductory Specimen of what the Reader may hope for...
The next Morning the Parson arose early, and going to the Bride and Bridegroom, acquainted them with what had happen'd relating to his Wife and _Diana_, who expressing a very gr...
2. Chapter 2This Story sufficiently shews the unnatural Intrigues of some Masculine Females, where by the falling down and largeness of the _Clitoris_, they have been taken for Men, as ment...
1. Chapter 1_Prefaces now a Days are rather Apologies for the Works to which they are prefix'd, than written for Instruction; and generally a ludicrous Scene is expected, if the Performance...
4. Chapter 4From the Year 1653 till the Year 1678, she suffer'd now and then as violent Pains as those of Child-birth. When they attack'd her most severely, she entreated the Surgeon to rip...