[?Gay (John)] "Prudentia". An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, first edition, woodcut device to title, also head-piece, a little soiling and creasing, final f. browned verso, disbound, [Foxon, E416], by T.W., 1723. ⁂Perhaps by John Arbuthnot. John Woodward (1665-1728) naturalist and antiquarian, several times satirised by Pope. The epistle is a response to Arbuthnot's Annus Mirabilis, a satirical poetic prognostication predicting a general merging of the genders brought about by a conjunction of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. The epistle recounts both Prudentia's sudden growth of a penis and her entreaties to Dr Woodward to remove it.
[?Gay (John)] "Prudentia". An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, first edition, woodcut device to title, also head-piece, a little soiling and creasing, final f. browned verso, disbound, [Foxon, E416], by T.W., 1723. ⁂Perhaps by John Arbuthnot. John Woodward (1665-1728) naturalist and antiquarian, several times satirised by Pope. The epistle is a response to Arbuthnot's Annus Mirabilis, a satirical poetic prognostication predicting a general merging of the genders brought about by a conjunction of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. The epistle recounts both Prudentia's sudden growth of a penis and her entreaties to Dr Woodward to remove it.
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