I love the old way best, the simple way
Of poison, where we too are strong as men.
—Euripides, Medea (translated by Gilbert Murray)
The great Use of Chocolate in Venery, and for Supplying the Testicles with a Balsam, or a Sap, is so ingeniously made out by one of our learned countrymen, that I dare not presume to add any Thing after so accomplished a Pen; though I am of Opinion, that I might treat of the Subject without any Immodesty, or Offence . . .
—Henry Stubbe, The Indian Nectar, or, a Discourse Concerning Chocolata, etc., 1662, 1682