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The Samians


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From John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis: = man transform'd: or, the artificiall changling, 1653, p. 83. An image of 'A Samians' face with letters 'burned' into the forehead. The text beneath explains: 'The ingenious Women are marked with certaine notes in the Forehead, which is accounted a kind of generosity, they esteeming it an argument of ignoblenesse to be without them.'

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Ingenuity: Ingenious, Ingenuity: Genius, Face, letters, physiognomy, fashion, nature

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