The Female Physician / Containing all the diseases incident to that sex, in virgins, wives, and widows; together with their causes and symptoms, their degrees of danger, and respective methods of prevention and cure: to which is added, the whole art of new improv'd midwifery; comprehending the necessary qualifications of a midwife, and particular directions for laying women, in all cases of difficult and preternatural births; together with the diet and regimen of both the mother and child.

by John Maubray

Scours o’er the Plain; regardless of her Young:

Demanding Rites of Love, she sternly stalks;

And hunts her Lover, in his lonely Walks.

’Tis then the shapeless Bear his Den forsakes;

In Woods and Fields a vast Destruction makes.

Boars whet their Tusks, to battle Tygers move,

Enrag’d with Hunger, more enrag’d with Love.

BUT all ludicrous Diversions apart! I proceed hence to a necessary Consequence of this Noble Natural PASSION; viz.

CHAP. V.
Of COPULATION.