subs. (venery).—1.  The generative organs: male or female; and (2) the semen (quot. 1547). Hence NATURE’S PRIVY-SEAL (TREASURY, or TUFTED-TREASURE) = the female pudendum; NATURE’S SCYTHE = the penis; NATURE’S DUTY = copulation; NATURE’S FOUNTS = the paps. See CREAM, CREAMSTICK, DAIRIES, GREENS, MONOSYLLABLE, PRICK, and RIDE.

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  1547.  BOORDE, Seconde Booke of the Brevyary of Health, Fol. XXII. back. I had two lordes in cure that had distyllacion like to NATURE.

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  1635.  GLAPTHORNE, The Lady Mother, i., 1.

          Lovell.  The totall some of my blest deity
Is the magazine of NATURES TREASURY.

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  c. 1661.  Old Song, ‘The Maid a Bathing’ [FARMER, Merry Songs and Ballads (1895), ii., 48].

        Her legs she opened wide,
  My eyes I let down steal,
Until that I espy’d
  Dame NATURE’S PRIVY SEAL.

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  c. 1707.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, v., 136.

        Then no more dispute me, for I am rashly bent,
  To subject your Beauty
  To kind NATURE’S DUTY.

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  1766.  The Rattle, 33.

        But while love’s meadow, happy Dick,
  With NATURE’S SCYTHE was mowing.

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  1827.  The Merry Muses, 75, ‘Cupid’s Frolic.’

        What words can paint the pleasure
  That springs from love’s soft powers,
When NATURE’S TUFTED TREASURE
  Pours sweet in spermy showers.

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