Title page of “Eunuchism display’d” By a person of honour. 1718.“The esteem
Title page of “Eunuchism display’d” By a person of honour. 1718.“The esteem they have met with in the 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 enter into that state.”“Occasion’d by a young lady falling in love with Nicolini, who sung in the opera at the Haymarket, and to whom she had 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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