HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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Such lufcious fongs as pierce the fecret chine,
Tickle the loins, and work the luftful fpine.
And Juvenal, fpeaking of the pipes at the bona
Dea-
Rota Bona fecreta Dece, cum tibia lumbos
Excitat, & cornu ariter vinoq ; feruntur.
When mufic and when wine to luft confpire,
Provoke the blood, and fet the loins on fire.
Upon this account, Ifidorus, in the paffage before
recited, derives the word loins from the lafcivioufnefs
of luft, becaufe both the caufe and feat of corporeal
pleafure lies in them. Nicolau4 Perotius, in his Cor-
nucopia, derives it more plainly from the word lubido:
that lumbi comes from lubendo, by inferting the letter
m, as is frequent in derivations. So Martinius, in hig
Lexicon, derives cumbo from cubo, tango from 'ago,
frango from frago.
Again, as this office is attributed to the loins, fo it
is to the reins, which are a part of the loins—and, in
regard of the formation of the body, a very principal
one. That thefe adminifter to generation is hinted
2 Kings