m quid lacteolus sinus, et ipsas
Prae te fers sine linteo papillas?
Hoc est dicere, posce, posce, trado;
Hoc est ad Venerem vocare amantes."

There needs no more, as [4990]Fredericus Matenesius well observes, but a
crier to go before them so dressed, to bid us look out, a trumpet to sound,
or for defect a sow-gelder to blow,

[4991] "Look out, look out and see
What object this may be
That doth perstringe mine eye;
A gallant lady goes
In rich and gaudy clothes,
But whither away God knows,
------look out, &c., _et quae sequuntur_,"

or to what end and purpose? But to leave all these fantastical raptures,
I'll prosecute my intended theme. Nakedness, as I have said, is an odious
thing of itself, _remedium amoris_; yet it may be so used, in part, and at
set times, that there can be no such enticement as it is;

[4992] "Nec mihi cincta Diana placet, nec nuda Cythere,
Illa voluptatis nil habet, haec nimium."

David so espied Bathsheba, the elders Susanna: [4993]Apelles was enamoured
with Campaspe, when he was to paint her naked. Tiberius _in Suet. cap. 42._
supped with Sestius Gallus an old lecher, _libidinoso sene, ea lege ut
nudae puellae administrarent_; some say as much of Nero, and Pontus Huter
of Carolus Pugnax. Amongst the Babylonians, it was the custom of some
lascivious queans to dance frisking in that fashion, saith Curtius _lib.
5._ and Sardus _de mor. gent. lib. 1._ writes of others to that effect. The
[4994]Tuscans at some set banquets had naked women to attend upon them,
which Leonicus _de Varia hist. lib. 3. cap. 96._ confirms of such other
bawdy nations. Nero would have filthy pictures still hanging in his
chamber, which is too commonly used in our times, and Heliogabalus, _etiam
coram agentes, ut ad venerem incitarent_: So things may be abused. A
servant maid in Aristaenetus spied her master and mistress through the
key-hole [4995]merrily disposed; upon the sight she fell in love with her
master. [4996]Antoninus Caracalla observed his mother-in-law with her
breasts amorously laid open, he was so much moved, that he said, _Ah si
liceret_, O that I might; which she by chance overhearing, replied as
impudently, [4997]_Quicquid libet licet_, thou mayst do what thou wilt: and
upon that temptation he married her: this object was not in cause, not the
thing itself, but that unseemly, indecent carriage of it.

When you have all do