So gloz’d the Tempter, and his Proem tun’d; Into the Heart of Eve his words made way,

, Folio Society, 2006, p.27: the Lord Julio Romero at Yvoy, having committed this oversight to issue out of his holde, to parlie with the Constable of France, at his returne found the Towne taken, and himselfe jack-out-of-doors.

Known throughout Europe as “the Hollander beater,” it could produce more pulp in a day than a stamper could produce in a week. Despite its nickname, it used metal blades to chop rags into pulp, whereas the stamper beat rags into pulp.

Rather than seeing in [the anonymous author of My Secret Life] a courageous fugitive from a Victorianism that would have compelled him to silence, I am inclined to think that, in an epoch dominated by (highly prolix) directives enjoining discretion and modesty, he was the most direct and in a way the most naïve representative of a plurisecular injunction to talk about sex.