[35] Johannis Goropii Becani, Origines Antwerpianæ, 1569, lib. i., p.p. 26 and 101.
[36] The foreskins, still extant, of the Saviour, are reckoned to be twelve in number. One was in the possession of the monks of Coulombs; another at the Abbey of Charroux; a third at Hildesheim, in Germany; a fourth at Rome, in the Church of St. Jean-de-Latran; a fifth at Antwerp; a sixth at Puy-en-Velay, in the Church of Notre Dame, &c., &c. So much for relics!
[37] Dulaure, Singularités Historiques de l'Historie de Paris, p. 77. Paris, 1825.
[38] Letter of Sir W. Hamilton prefixed to Payne Knight's "Worship of Priapus."
For a representation of the ancient, Ex voto, in silver, the size of the original see [Plate VI.], figure 1. It is copied from an additional plate inserted by M. Panizzi, late librarian of the British Museum, in the fly-leaf of Payne Knight's "Worship of Phallus."
[39] To these the canon law adds sorcery, ligature or point-tying.
[40] Zachais, Quæst. medico. leg. lib. II., tit. I, quæst. I.
[41] See Lectures on Comparative Anatomy by Sir Everard Home, Bart. Vol. III., p. 166. London 1823.
[42] Lib. I., Epigram. 91.
[43] Juvenal Sat. I., vv. 204, 105.