Re: "oral sex" amon g the Victorians + postil(l)ion

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 1/11/06 10:04:46 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


> The nice thing about "venery"
> is that it could also refer to terms specific to hunting; both
> veneries come into Middle English from the same ultimate Latin source
> along with "win", "venom", "venison", etc.
>

This allowed Sir Thomas Wyatt in the 16th century to pun extensively in his
sonnet that begins;

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is a hind,
But as for me I can no more.
The vain travail has wearied me so sore,
I am of them that furthest come behind.

Supposedly, the poem was written about his squashed love affair with the
queen.