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CHAP. V. Of COPULATION.
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THIS Conjunction of both Sexes, is the Consummation of Love, and the Pinnacle of the Lover’s natural Felicity. It is the Sum and superlative Degree of their terrene Happiness; above which the Lovers cannot aspire, naturally speaking, in Human Society.
THIS is also the utmost Height of their eager Desires, and the greatest Extent of their languishing Wishes. It is the Abatement, as well as the Completion of their unbounded Passions, and the Tranquillity of their restless Minds. However yet——
THIS Act is Two-fold; Fæcund and successful, or Sterile and unsuccessful in the Event.
I. AS to the First, some most famous Authors have written their Minds freely and copiously upon it, and have given certain pertinent Instructions, touching the Time, and Manner, as well as Conduct of the Parties concern’d, both before and after the Act: Particularly Avicenna[37] (no Proletarian Writer, but a most Illustrious and most Learned Prince) has insisted at large upon every Case belonging to this Head, together with the Way and Manner, as well as the proper Time of begetting either Sex; “Ubi, inquit, menses defluxerint, sitq; abstersus Uterus, quod quinto ferè die usu venit, aut septimo; Si Vir Mulieri congrediatur, à primo quàm est purgata die ad quintum, MAREM produci: à quinto verò ad octavum, FÆMELLAM: rursus ab octavo ad duodecimum denuo, MASCULUM, &c.”