
Lasciveté.
LXXII.
Je ne voy point pourquoy la marthe subeline[1]
De mignarde mollesse aux humains soit le signe.
Est-ce pource qu’elle est de soy voluptueuse?
Ou pource qu’elle rend la femme plus pompeuse?
Le Sarmatique rat civette on veut nommer,[2]
Mais le musc Arabic se fait fort renommer.[3]
Commentaires.
Tout parfum sent la luxure, & est de mauvais
presage, principalement à
l’endroict des femmes. Cel-
le là est de bonne odeur, qui n’en a point du tout.
Le musc, & semblables parfums font voir que ceux
qui en usent ont le coeur mol, & addonné à luxure.
Ce qui s’appelle rat Sarmatic, les autres l’appellent
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chat. Or & le chat & le rat sont animaux fort lu-
xurieux.
1. zibeline, ‘civet cat’, one source of musk, an ingredient in many perfumes.
2. Sarmatia was the region north of the Black Sea.
3. The words ‘mouse’ and ‘musk’ are connected, from the mouse-shaped sac of the male animals which produce musk. Some plants have a musky smell. Arabia was famous for plants which produced aromatic gums (e.g. incense and nard).
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