Title page of “Eunuchism display’d” Bya person of honour. 1718.“The esteem they have met with inthe
Title page of “Eunuchism display’d” Bya person of honour. 1718.“The esteem they have met with inthe world, and how they came to be made so. Wherein principally is examin’d,whether they are capable of marriage, and if they ought to be suffer’d to enterinto that state.”“Occasion’d by a young lady fallingin love with Nicolini, who sung in the opera at the Haymarket, and to whom shehad like to have been married.”“There are, who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss;”- John Dryden’s “Juvenile”, 1693Eunuch: source for male-en-Femme nec plus ultra (“nothing further beyond”) -- source link
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