[4989] “Nam 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 done, veniunt a veste sagittae the greatest provocations of lust are from our apparel; God makes, they say, man shapes, and there is no motive like unto it;

[4998] “Which doth even beauty beautify,
        And most bewitch a wretched eye,”