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THE SECOND BOOKE 341
of Venus her mysteries to remove them from out the
private vestry of her temple, and expose them to the
open view of the people. And that to draw her sports
from out the curtines was to loose them. Shame is
matter of some consequence. Concealing, reservation
and circumspection are parts of estimation. That
sensuality under the maske of Vertu did very ingeniously
procure not to be prostituted in the midst of
highwaies, not trodden upon and seen by the common
sort, alledging the dignity and commodity of her
wonted Cabinets. Whereupon some say that to forbid
and remove the common brothel-houses is not only
to spread whoredome every where, which only was
allotted to those places, but also to incite idle and
vagabond men to that vice by reason of the difficultie.
Machiis es Aufidico qui vir Corvinefuisti,
Rivalis fuerat qui tuus, ille vir est.
Cur aliena placet tibi, qua tua nonplacet uxor?
Nunquid securus non potes arrigere ?¹
This experience is diversified by a thousand examples.
Nullus in vrbcfmt tota, qui tangere vellet
Uxot em gratis Coeciliane tuam,
Dum hcuit: sed nunc pontis custodibus, ingens
Turbafututoi um est, ingeniosus homo es. 2
A Philosopher being taken with the deed, was demaunded
what he did ; answered very mildly, ' I plant
man,' blushing no more being found so napping than
if he had beene taken setting of Garlike. It is (as I
suppose) of a tender and respective opinion that a
notable and religious Author holds this action so
necessarily-bound to secrecy and Siame, that in Cynike
embracements and dalliances he could not be perswaded
that the worke should come to her end; but
rather that it lingred and staid only to represent
wanton gestures and lascivious motions, to maintaine
the impudency of their schooles profession : and that to
powre forth what shame had forced and bashfullnesse
1 MART. 1. iii. Epig. lxx. ² lb. 1, i. Epig. lxxiv.