Nature, 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.
1547. BOORDE, Seconde Booke of the Breviary of Health, Fol. xxii. back. I had two lordes in cure that had distyllacion like to nature.
1635. Glapthorne, The Lady Mother, i., 1. Lovell. The totall some of my blest deity Is the magazine of Nature's treasury.
c. 1661. Old Song, 'The Maid a Bathing' [Farmer, Merry Songs and Ballads (1895), ii., 41]. Her legs she opened wide, My eyes I let down steal, Until that I espy'd Dame Nature's privy-seal.
c. 1707. Durfey, Pills to Purge, iii., 213. I am rashly bent, To subject your Beauty To kind nature's duty.
1766. Rattle, 33. Love's meadow, happy Dick, With nature's scythe was mowing.
1827. The Merry Muses, 75. What words can paint the pleasure, That springs from love's soft powers, When nature's tufted treasure Pours sweets in spermy showers.
Nature's Garb, subs. (common).—Nakedness.
English synonyms. To be abram; all face; in one's birthday suit; in buff; to cast one's skin; peeled; on the shallow (q.v.)
French synonyms. Etre en couennes; s'habiller en sauvage.
Spanish synonyms. Pelota; poseta; en cuero.
Naughty, adj. (common).—1. Loose; obscene. Hence TO DO THE (GO, OR BE) NAUGHTY = to play the whore: shop and working girls in large towns sometimes say they work for their living, but do the naughty for their clothes; naughtiness
lewdness; the naughty
the female pudendum; naughty-pack (or dicky-bird) = a wanton; NAUGHTY-HOUSE = a brothel; naughty-man = a whoremonger; naughty-dream = a lascivious dream.
1550. Bansley, Pride of Women [Hazlitt], Early Pop. Poetry, iv., 232. For wanton lasses and gallant women, And other lewde noughty packes.
[?]. Apprehen, Three Witches. Having two lewde daughters, no better than NAUGHTY PACKS.
1588. R. B[ernard], Terence, in English. Dost thou still speake ambiguously to me, thou naughty packe?
1603. Shakspeare, Measure for Measure, ii., 1, 77. It is a naughty house.
1611. Middleton and Decker, Roaring Girl [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vi., p. 20). She's a varlet—a naughty pack.
1638. Rowley, Shoemaker a Gent. G. 4. Got a wench with childe, Thou naughty packe, thou hast undone thyself for ever.
1632. Nabbes, Covent Garden, iii., 1. Susan. If ever I lie under any of them for the greene sickness. Dorot. Fie upon thee. Susan. Why, I doe not meane NAUGHTINES.
1673. Wycherley, The Gentleman Dancing Master, i., 1. Ay; but to be delighted when we wake with a naughty dream, is a sin, aunt; and I am so very scrupulous, that I would as soon consent to a NAUGHTY MAN as to a NAUGHTY DREAM.
1675. Crowne, Country Wit, i., 1. Most severely censuring all that are young and handsome to be naughty.
