y Pleasure in them, or Conceive by them.

Women well furnish'd in these Parts may divert themselves with their
Companions, to whom for the most part they can give as much Pleasure as
Men do, but cannot receive in any proportion the Pleasure themselves,
for want of Ejaculation, the Crisis of Enjoyment to the Male in the
Intrigues of _Venus_. I am inform'd that Diversions of this nature are
frequently practis'd by robust and lustful Females, who cannot with any
prospect of safety to their Reputations, venture upon the Embraces of a
Man, though they are never so strongly enclin'd. The unnatural Pleasures
of this kind are finely illustrated in the following Song, written by
Mr. ROWE, which I take it will not be improperly inserted in this Place.

[Footnote A: Le Tableau de l'Amour Conjugal, par Monsieur _Venette_.
Paris 1710.]

SONG.

I.

_While_ SAPPHO, _with harmonious Airs,
Her dear_ PHILENIS _charms,
With equal joy the Nymph appears,
Dissolving in her Arms_.

II.

_Thus to themselves alone they are,
What all_ Mankind _can give;
Alternately the happy Pair
All grant, and all receive_.

III.

_Like the_ Twin-Stars, _so fam'd for Friends,
Who set by Turns and rise;
When_ one _to_ THETIS _Lap descends
His_ Brother _mounts the Skies_.

IV.

_With happier Fate, and kinder Care,
These_ Nymphs _by_ Turns _do reign,
While still the_ Falling, _does prepare
The Rising, to sustain_.

V.

_The Joys of either Sex in Love;
In each of them we read,
Successive each, to each does prove,
Fierce Youth and yielding Maid_.

* * * * *

_Intrigues of Hermaphrodites and Masculine Females_.

The hotter the Climate, the stronger are the Inclinations to Venery.
When I was formerly in _Italy_; there happened a notable Adventure in
the Neighbourhood of _Rome_, between a certain Lady call'd _Margureta_,
one of a noble Family in the Papal Dominions, and a Lady of _France_,
whose Name was _Barbarissa_: These two Females were in their Statures
very near equal to the largest siz'd Male; they had full and rough
Faces, large Shoulders, Hands and Feet; and but slender Hips, and small
breasts: In short, they resembled Men in all respects, but their
Dresses, their Gates and Voices, and indeed they were suspected to be
Hermaphrodites.