HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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from whom Nevizanus in his Marriage Rites, and
Campanelle in the place before cited, quotes it. If I
am not miftaken, there is another perfon much
like Picus's acquaintance mentioned by Ccelius Rho-
diginus in his Ancient Readings, book the II th, chap.
15. From him Andreas Tiraquellus cites in his Laws
of Wedlock, the I5th, and number the 5th. Ccelius
relates the ftory in this manner :—" It is certain, upon
" the oath of credible perfons, that not many years
" fince, there lived a man, not of a falacioufnefs re-
" fembling that of cocks, but of a more wonderful and
" almoft
incredible fort of lechery—who, the more
ftripes he received, was the more hurried to coition.
"The case was prodigious, fince it was a queftion
"which he defired molt—the blows, or the a& itfelf,
46 unlefs the pleafure of the laft was meafured by the
"number of the former befides, it was his manner to
" heighten the fmartnefs of the rod with vinegar the
"day before it was to be ufed, and then to requeft the
46 discipline with violent entreaties. But if the flogger
46 feemed to work flowly, he flew into a paffion, and
" abufed
her. He was never contented unlefs the blood '
" fprung out, and followed the lathes—a rare inftance
46 of a man who went an equal pace to pleafure and to
w pain,