Venery

Venery is defined as “the art, act, or practice of hunting.”

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

“Venery: the practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure.”

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

This morning's muster attended only by the cabin boy, Tom, three men of the larboard watch, two of the starboard, the carpenter, and the ship's Parrot, Algernon, the rest of the crew being still ashore in pursuit of Venery.

Scrutiny On the Bounty: Captain Bligh's Secret Logbook 2003

This morning's muster attended only by the cabin boy, Tom, three men of the larboard watch, two of the starboard, the carpenter, and the ship's Parrot, Algernon, the rest of the crew being still ashore in pursuit of Venery.

Scrutiny On the Bounty: Captain Bligh's Secret Logbook 2003

FABRIZIO: They prohibited both of them, and this prohibition was not very difficult, because the exercises which they gave each day to the soldiers were so many, sometimes being occupied all together, sometimes individually, that no time was left to them to think either of Venery, or of games, or of other things which make soldiers seditious and useless.

The Art of War 2003

Venery, they pace round about the fire three times.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

The hotter the Climate, the stronger are the Inclinations to Venery.

Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

Then I called Fotis and sayd, Behold how Bacchus the egger and stirrer of Venery, doth offer him self of his owne accord, let us therefore drink up this wine, that we may prepare our selves and get us courage against soone, for Venus wanteth no other provision than this, that the Lamp may be all the night replenished with oyle, and the cups with wine.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

Know then; There are five _Beasts of Venery_ or _Forest_, viz. The

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

And because I reckon it the most necessary part of the _Hunter_ to understand the _Names_, _Degrees_, _Ages_, and _Seasons_ of the aforesaid different Beasts of _Forest_ or _Venery_, _Chace_, and

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett